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· 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”

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Judges: Bauer, Manioñ, Wood

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