Rice v. Dow Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “statutes of repose are to be treated not as statutes of limitation, but as part of the body of a state's substantive law in making choice-of-law determinations”
• holding Oregon law extinction of failure to warn claims obviates need to decide FIFRA preemption issue
• stating that “Washington has adopted the ‘most significant relationship test’ ” and applying the Restatement factors
• finding that the injury begins when the latently developing disease is detected
• adopting Restatement § 145 to apply to cases involving rights and liabilities in torts
• adopting Restatement § 145 to apply to cases involving rights and liabilities in torts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).