Legal Opinion

Pure Distributors, Inc. v. Baker

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided April 9, 2002No. 01-1636PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Appellants in this diversity action seek review of the district court’s dismissal of their claim as time-barred. The district court, in concluding that the appellants’ cause of action, accrued more than three years prior to the initiation of the present action, relied on certain inferences drawn from pleadings filed by the appellants in an earlier lawsuit. Although we believe that the pleadings in the other action might give rise to a potent inference that the claim is untimely, there is at least a reasonable basis for drawing a contrary inference. Because the summary…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. George Lambert, D/B/A Rainbow Fruit v. Sam Kysar and Joan Kysar, D/B/A Lewis River Tree FarmCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
  2. United Truck Leasing Corp. v. GeltmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
  3. Barbour v. Dynamics Research Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1995
  4. G.S. Enterprises, Inc. v. Falmouth Marine, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
  5. Perez-De-Munoz v. Volvo Car Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001

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3Cited by22 opinions

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  2. Donahue v. Boston, City OfCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
  3. Dasey v. Massachusetts DepartCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
  4. Patterson v. PattersonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
  5. Sears Petroleum & Transport Corporation v. Burgess Construction Services, Inc.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 2006

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