should be held liable anyway for the refinery's decision to put asbestos-containing insulation on the boiler: Foster Wheeler obtained summary judgment against McCann by arguing that California's "borrowing statute," Code of Civil Procedure Section 361, required the superior court to apply Oklahoma's 10-year statute of repose for improvements to real property. While a statute of limitations runs from discovery of an injury, a statute of repose runs from completion of the injury-causing product or building; therefore, under Oklahoma's statute, McCann's right to sue Foster Wheeler terminated in 1968 (even though he did not get sick until many years later). On February 18, 2010, the Supreme Court of California unanimously ruled, after a lengthy conflict of laws analysis, that California can apply another state's statute of repose against a California resident, like McCann, where all the defendant's tortious conduct occurred only in the other state. In an opinion signed by Chief Justice Ronald M. George, the Court held: The Court remanded to the Court of Appeal to allow McCann's estate to further litigate its other remaining attack against Foster Wheeler: whether the boiler was actually an improvement to real property within the meaning of the Oklahoma statute of repose. Obviously, if the boiler was not such an improvement, the statute of repose would not apply to cut off McCann's claims. The Court of Appeal eventually did rule for Foster Wheeler and against McCann on that issue, in an unpublished decision released on November 30, 2010. McCann's estate petitioned for review of that decision. The state supreme court denied review on February 16, 2011, thus bringing McCann's lawsuit to an end after over five years of litigation. Notes External links Obituary (not available as of 17 July 2006) USA The Olympian Obituary - starts p21 Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics American male sport wrestlers Deaths from cancer in California 1934 births 2006 deaths Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in wrestling