Ninth Circuit· 10/18/1984

Dyniewicz v. United States

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742 F.2d 484

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holding that § 2401(b) imposes both a two-year and six- month limitations requirement, each of which must be satisfied
concluding that the plaintiff’s cause of action accrued once he knew “both the fact of injury and its immediate physical cause,” and that the plaintiff’s “ignorance of the involvement of United States employees [was] irrelevant”
stating that equi- table tolling would not apply in the absence of “fraudulent concealment” of information
“Discovery of the causé of one’s injury, however, does not mean knowing who is responsible for it.”
“Discovery of the cause of one’s injury, however, does not mean knowing who is responsible for it.”
\Under the Federal Tort Claims Act a claim must be filed with the appropriate federal agency within two years of its accrual and suit must be commenced within six months of the agency's denial of the claim.\

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