Legal Opinion
Bruce Crawford v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 17, 1986No. 85-3085PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district court granted the government’s motion to dismiss Bruce Crawford’s suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act as untimely, see 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), and he appeals, presenting a question of some complexity concerning proof of timeliness in a suit under the Act.
In 1980 Crawford, who was then 19 years old and afflicted with Sturge-Weber Syndrome (as an alleged consequence of which he was mentally retarded and experienced seizures), was injured on a sidewalk in Illinois when he tripped over metal spikes that had been left in the ground when a U.S. mailbox had been…
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