Justice Powell, concurring in the judgment. I join Part I of Justice O’Connor’s concurring opinion, but do not join the Court’s opinion. I am concerned, for the reasons persuasively stated by Justice O’Connor, that the Court’s opinion may be read as prejudging the constitutionality of longer periods of limitation. As she observes, it is significant “that a paternity suit is one of the few Texas causes of act…
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