Miss. High Court Rejects Chance to Review Statute of Limitations Dispute

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied an emergency petition for permission to appeal an interlocutory order denying a summary judgment motion based on the alleged violation of the statute of limitations in a welding fume case. McLemore v. BOC Group, et al., No. 2007-M-00916-SCT (Miss. Sup. Ct.); McLemore v. BOC Group, et al., No. 2005-0378 (Miss. Cir. Ct., Copiah Cty.).

On Aug. 16, the high court rejected the defendants' arguments that the trial court's order permitted the "unilateral" application of the state's statute of limitations by accepting the argument that second and third diagnosis opinions could be …