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Sun Oil Co. Vs. Wortman

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 15, 1988

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  1. Hanna Vs. Plumer US Supreme Court · Apr 26, 1965
  2. Guaranty Trust Co. Vs. York US Supreme Court · Jun 18, 1945
  3. Phillips Petroleum Co. Vs. Shutts US Supreme Court · Jun 26, 1985
  4. Wetzell Vs. Bussard US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1826
  5. Aetna Life Ins. Co. Vs. Lavoie US Supreme Court · Apr 22, 1986
  6. U.S. 717 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Sun Oil Co. v. Wortman
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  7. U.S. 717 (1988) Sun Oil Co. v. Wortman
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  8. not violate the Full Faith and Credit Clause by applying its own statute of limitations. The holding of M'Elmoyle v. Cohen
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  9. favor of the modern understanding that statutes of limitations are substantive -- as exemplified by Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
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  10. court's conclusion that such an agreement was implied by petitioner's undertaking with the FPC. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Stahl
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  11. and Whitehall Gil Co. v. Boagni
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  12. of the Supreme Court of Kansas that it is liable for interest on certain previously suspended gas royalties. Wortman v. Sun
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  13. and thereafter the average prime rate compounded quarterly. The trial court relied on Shutts v. Phillips
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  14. See 222 Kan. at 562-565, 567 P.2d at 1317-1319. The principles of Shutts I were reaffirmed in Shutts v. Phillips
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  15. The original decision of the trial court in this case was then affirmed on the strength of Shutts II in Wortman v. Sun
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  16. Kansas Supreme Court for application of the governing law of the other States to those claims. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts
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  17. in Wortman I and remanded it for reconsideration in light of our decision in Shutts III. Sun Oil Co. v. Wortman
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  18. were timely. Page 486 U. S. 722 The Kansas Supreme Court agreed with the first of these holdings in Shutts v. Phillips
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  19. to claims that, in their substance, are and must be governed by the law of a different State. See, e.g., Wells v. Simonds
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  20. M'Elmoyle v. Cohen
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  21. Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Industrial
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  22. a procedural matter for purposes of the Full Faith and Credit Clause. Petitioner initially argues that M'Elmoyle v. Cohen
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  23. the rule in international law at the time the Constitution was adopted. This is indisputably correct, see Le Roy v. Crowninshield
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  24. was longer than the limitations period of the State whose substantive law governed the merits of the claim. See Nash v. Tupper
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  25. Cai. 402, 412-413 (N.Y. 1803) (citing unreported 1795 New York case, Page 486 U. S. 725 Page v. Cable
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  26. Pearsall v. Dwight
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  27. Ruggles v. Keeler
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  28. Graves v. Graves's
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  29. Medbury v. Hopkins
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  30. Le Roy v. Crowninshield
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  31. Hawkins v. Barney's
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  32. bar of the statute does not extinguish the underlying right, but merely causes the remedy to be withheld. See Little v. Blunt
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  33. See also Wetzell v. Bussard
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  34. to allow its courts to provide a remedy, even though the jurisdiction where the right arose would not. See Graves v. Graves's
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  35. diversity jurisdiction, where we have held that statutes of limitations are substantive, see Guaranty Trust Co. v. York
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  36. by the purposes for which the dichotomy is drawn. In the context of our Erie jurisprudence, see Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins
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  37. as procedural for conflict of laws purposes, those States can themselves adopt a rule to that effect, e.g., Heavner v. Uniroyal
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  38. Jackman v. Rosenbaum
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  39. that is clearly established and that has been brought to the court's attention. See, e.g., Pennsylvania Fire Ins. Co. v. Gold
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  40. Western Life Indemnity Co. v. Rupp
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  41. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Melton
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  42. Banholzer v. New
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  43. Such an agreement need not be express, but can be inferred from conduct. See Preston Farm & Ranch Supply, Inc. v. Bio-Zyme
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  44. Petitioner's reliance on Phillips Petroleum Page 486 U. S. 732 Co. v. Stahl
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  45. owed. See Webster Drilling Co. v. Sterling
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  46. as to liability for interest and the rate to be paid. Concerning liability, petitioner relies on Whitehall Oil Co. v. Boagni
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  47. Wurzlow v. Placid
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  48. such a stipulation, or that an implied agreement would not be found in the circumstances of this case. Cf. Boutte v. Chevron
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  49. of constitutional command, rather than leaving enforcement to the vagaries of the forum's view of comity. See Estin v. Estin
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  50. he precise question now presented appears to have been decided in only a single case, New York v. Coe
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