A Pennsylvania statute requiring courts to adopt foreign periods of limitations for claims arising in jurisdictions with shorter filing windows does not extend to statutes of repose, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

The Tuesday decision upholds two lower court findings declining to grant summary judgment to defendants that said Pennsylvania’s borrowing statute barred the plaintiff’s products liability suit over a ladder he said he purchased and used in Illinois. Neither the trial court nor the two appeals courts agreed with the defendants’ argument that Pennsylvania’s Uniform Statute of Limitations on Foreign Claims Act required the court to adopt Illinois’ 10-year statute of repose for products liability claims.