Legal Opinion
Hunter-Boykin v. George Washington University
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 9, 1998No. 96-7039PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
Concurring Opinion filed by Chief Judge EDWARDS.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge:
The summary judgment motion at issue in this case should have turned on the reasonable interpretation of the phrase “to toll the running of any statute of limitations period,” as used in a letter agreement between the plaintiff and defendant. Rather than determine whether a reasonable juror could have read the phrase as the plaintiff did, however, the court below applied a set of legal rules that it thought required the phrase to be read as the defendant urged. Because…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Chardon v. Fumero SotoSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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