Legal Opinion
Annie Carter v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 14, 1985No. 83-1858PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge McGOWAN.
McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
This personal injury suit requires us to decide an apparently novel question regarding the statute of limitations: Does the filing of a suit in the local D.C. court toll the statute of limitations with respect to a suit filed in the federal courts raising the same claim, where the latter suit is filed after the local trial court rules itself without jurisdiction in the case, but before the local appellate court reverses the local trial court and decides that jurisdiction properly obtained below? We hold…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Burnett v. New York Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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