Duffy v. Horton Memorial Hospital

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• amended complaint that adds new party against whom the statute of limitations has run does not relate back to filing of original complaint
• amended complaint that adds new party against whom the statute of limitations has run does not relate back to filing of original complaint
• “A defendant should be secure in his reasonable expectation that the slate has been wiped clean of ancient obligations . . . .”
• “[T]he primary purpose of a limitations period is fairness to a defendant.... There is also the need to protect the judicial system from the burden of adjudicating stale and groundless claims.” (citations omitted)
• “the primary purpose of a limitations period is fairness to a defendant.”
• “We have emphasized that the primary purpose of a limitations period is fairness to a defendant . . . .[] There is also the need to protect the judicial system from the burden of adjudicating stale and groundless claims.”

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