Doe Ex Rel. Fein v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the Court’s inquiry necessarily focuses on the “District’s role” in the plaintiffs injuries and holding that “any inference of potential liability” evident from the police report at issue was “too remote to suggest the need for a ‘focused investigation’ by the District”
• content requirements are to be interpreted liberally, and “in close cases doubts are to be resolved in favor of compliance”
• statute not tolled by minority status: “The statute contains no exception to the time limit.... We hold that the statute does not permit equitable tolling.”
• in case focused on whether notice adequately described District’s role in the injury, court noted that it is reasonable to require specificity with respect to cause and circumstances of injury
• in case involving negligence claim for failure to intervene to remove child from abusive home environment, police reports insufficient where they “d[id] not refer to any direct involvement by the District in determining [child’s] primary caretaker or residence”
• in case involving negligence claim for failure to intervene to remove child from abusive home environment, police reports insufficient where they \d[id] not refer to any direct involvement by the District in determining [child's] primary caretaker or residence\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).