STEPHANIE C. ARTIS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

PRYOR, Senior Judge:

Appellant, Stephanie Artis, asks us to reverse the trial court’s ruling on appel-lee’s, the District of Columbia (the District), motion to dismiss because, she argues, it misinterpreted the word “tolling” in 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d), and, as a consequence, erroneously limited her time to file her claim in Superior Court. Jurisdictions differ as to the meaning of “tolling” in 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d), and we consider the term to be ambiguous. In light of that ambiguity, we conclude that the “grace period” approach, advocated by the appel-lee, is more consistent with statute’s context…