Alcott Rehabilitation Hospital v. Superior Court

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• holding that plaintiff’s mental disability tolled statute of limitations on plaintiff’s 15 claims against health care facility under section 352
• explaining that a plaintiff lacks legal capacity when they are “incapable of . . . transacting business or understanding the nature or effects of [their] acts”
• providing that in order to invoke Section 352(a), a plaintiff must show that he is 22 “incapable of caring for his property or transacting business or understanding the nature or 23 effects of his acts”
• defining \insane\ as one being \incapable of caring for his [or her] property or transacting business or understanding the nature or effects of his [or her] acts\ (quoting Pearl v. Pearl, 177 P. 845, 846 (Cal. 1918))

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