Legal Opinion
Mary L. Goodhand v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 15, 1994No. 94-2028PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of her medical malpractice suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act; the district court had ruled that the suit was barred by the Act’s two-year statute of limitations for filing the administrative claim that is a prerequisite to suing. The evidence upon which the ruling was based is the plaintiffs deposition, which discloses the following facts. (We do not vouch for their truth; but they are all the record contains.) The wife of an Air Force pilot, Mary Goodhand gave birth to her first and only child on November 29, 1985, at an Air…
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