Legal Opinion
Hensley v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 9, 2008No. 06-35619PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
In this negligence action arising from a car accident, we are called upon to decide when the plaintiffs’ claim accrued for purposes of measuring the two-year statute of limitations under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2401, 2671-2680. As required by binding precedent, we hold that the claim accrued at the time of the collision and not later when the Attorney General certified that the driver of the other vehicle was acting within the scope of his federal employment at the time of the collision. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment in favor of…
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