Overland Const. Co., Inc. v. Sirmons

How courts have described this case

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• holding a statute unconstitutional because it eliminated a right of redress that was first recognized by the common law in 1959
• stating that the statute violates access to the courts
• holding unconstitutional as applied in section 95.11(3)(c), Florida Statutes (1975)
• interpreting language similar to Colo. Const. art. II, § 6 to forbid abrogation of common law rights absent an overpowering public necessity and declaring a statute of repose unconstitutional on that basis
• engineers, architects and builders statute of repose
• a special sort of product liability case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).