Hooper v. Ebenezer Senior Services & Rehabilitation Center

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “equitable tolling is a doctrine that should be used sparingly and only when the interests of justice compel its use”
• recognizing that “[t]he equitable power of a court is not bound by cast-iron rules but exists to do fairness and is flexible and adaptable to particular exigencies” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that “[t]he equitable power of a court is not bound by cast-iron rules but exists to do fairness and is flexible and adaptable to particular exigencies” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• providing that the party claiming the statute of limitations should be tolled bears the burden of establishing sufficient facts to justify its use
• noting the doctrine of equitable tolling should be used sparingly and only when the interests of justice demand its use
• noting the doctrine of equitable tolling should be used sparingly and only when the interests of justice demand its use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).