Armes v. Kenosha County

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• observing that statutory limitations on actions are designed to ensure prompt litigation of valid claims and to protect a defendant from fraudulent or stale claims brought after memories have faded or evidence has been lost
• where legislature uses similar but different terms in a statute, particularly within same section, we presume it intended the terms to have different meanings
• when the legislature uses similar but different terms in a statute, particularly within the same section, courts presume the legislature intended the terms to have different meanings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).