Deborah Fidler v. Eastman Kodak Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that notice include not only knowledge of injury but also knowledge of cause
• finding that knowledge of injury does not require knowledge that defendant’s breached a duty to cause the injury
• interpreting Massachusetts law in a products liability case under G.L.c. 260, §2A
• “Thus on notice, the potential litigant has the duty to discover from the legal, scientific, and medical communities whether the theory of causation is supportable and whether it supports a legal claim”
• “notice of likely cause is ordinarily enough to start the statute running”
• “notice of likely cause is ordinarily enough to start the statute running”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).