Gladys Banks v. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company

For the reasons stated in Section III of the majority opinion, I agree that summary judgment was properly entered against appellant Gladys Banks because she failed to support her opposition to appellee’s motion for summary judgment with evidence sufficient to create a contested issue of fact. I cannot agree, however, with the reasoning in Section II of the majority opinion.

As an initial matter, I believe that the majority’s conclusion that Wilson v. Garcia, 471 U.S. 261, 105 S.Ct. 1938, 85 L.Ed.2d 1254 (1985), requires us to borrow the District of Columbia’s three-year catchall statute of…