Paszkowski v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

In early 2000, plaintiff Marek Paszkowski filed a negligence suit against defendant, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (District), seeking damages for injuries allegedly sustained by plaintiff in 1998 while he was working on the District’s deep tunnel construction project. Plaintiff brought his suit in the circuit court of Cook County. The District filed a section 2 — 619 motion to dismiss plaintiffs claim on the ground that it was not brought within the one-year limitation period in section 8 — 101 of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort…