legislation, that it violated the due process clause of the Nebraska Constitution and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution, that it violated the open court provision of the Nebraska Constitution, and that it was an invalid exercise of legislative power. See, also, Smith v. Dewey, 214 Neb. 605, 335 N.W.2d 530 (1983). Later, in Williams v. Kingery Constr. Co., 225 Neb. 235, 404 N.W.2d 32 (1987), a suit relating to the building industry, the 10-year statutes of repose found in both §§ 25-222 and 25-223 were declared constitutional, citing Colton, supra, and Smith, supra. The constitutionality of § 25-224(2) has been upheld in the following federal cases: Groth v. Sandoz, Inc., 601 F. Supp. 453 (D. Neb. 1984), Brown v. Eli Lilly and Co., 690 F. Supp. 857 (D. Neb. 1988) (<HOLDING>), and Peterson v. Fuller Co., 807 F.2d 151 (8th
holding that the classification made by  252242 was neither unreasonable nor arbitrary holding that designation is neither a sentence nor a punishment holding that neither the ada nor the rehabilitation act applies to prison employment holding trial counsels performance at sentencing where defendant received death sentence after initial guilty plea was neither unreasonable nor prejudicial holding that where judgment was not entered the appeals period neither triggered nor expired