· 8/14/1996
Emmel Tolston v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Citations
- 102 F.3d 863
- 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 20591
- 1996 WL 729297
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stating that “[a] plaintiff need not be sure which cause is predominant, as long as she knows or has reason to know of a potential cause”
- involving knee pain and stating that medical opinion that injury was work-related was not necessary for claim to accrue
- “Just to be clear the [Fries] court added [that] this rule imposes on plaintiffs the affirmative duty to investigate the cause of a known injury”
- “At some point, persons with degenerative conditions have a duty to investigate cause”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Bauer, Manioñ, Wood
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