Ford v. Mills

How courts have described this case

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• holding a claim was barred under a state statute of repose even 4 though the claim was timely under the FTCA’s administrative procedure and statute of 5 limitations
• stating that “absent any similar provisions in the 7 FTCA rewriting the rules applicable to statutes of repose, such statutes are incorporated, not 8 preempted, as representing the substantive law of the place where the act or omission occurred”
• “The FTCA [ ] incorporates 23 substantive state law as federal law to determine liability.”
• “It is well-settled that the FTCA supplants state statute of limitations.”

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