Legal Opinion
Katherine M. Albers v. Eli Lilly & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 2004No. 03-2320PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Per curiam
More than a decade after she was diagnosed with a malformed uterus that the physician attributed to her mother’s ingestion of DES, Katherine Albers filed this tort action seeking damages from the drug’s maker, Eli Lilly & Company. Lilly invoked the statute of limitations, which (the parties agree) is supplied by the local law of the District of Columbia because the suit was filed there and then transferred to Illinois under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). The District of Columbia’s rule has been authoritatively stated:
In every case, the plaintiff has a duty to investigate matters affecting her affairs…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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