So, if I bring a claim on an oil and gas lease that involves some performance in Virginia and some in Kentucky (as I have done, in fact) in Virginia court and the Virginia court rules the claim is time-barred under the relatively short five-year Virginia statute of limitations for claims on a written contract, I can pack up and refile in Kentucky where the contract limitations used to be 10 years and nothing that happened in Virginia will be res judicata, because it was not "on the… [read post]