Lee Quinton v. United States

For the reasons hereafter stated, while I concur in the result reached by the majority and in the conclusions reached, that the question of when a tort claim accrues against the United States under 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b) is to be determined by federal law, and that under federal law the plaintiff’s suit was brought within the time allowed by Section 2401(b),1 I cannot concur in the characterization of the statutory two year period within *242which such a claim must be begun or forever barred as a “statute of limitations.”

It is established beyond question that Section 2401(b) is not a statute of…