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· 3/29/2012

JAIYEOLA v. District of Columbia

Citations

  • 40 A.3d 356
  • 2012 WL 1032697
  • 2012 D.C. App. LEXIS 135

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the statute of limitations for an RA claim should be one year, drawn from the DCHRA
  • holding that the DCHRA is more analogous to the Rehabilitation Act than the District of Columbia’s personal injury laws and applying the DCHRA's one-year statute of limitations to a Rehabilitation Act claim
  • holding that the DCHRA is more analogous to the Rehabilitation Act than the District of Columbia’s personal 8 injury laws and applying the DCHRA's one-year statute of limitations to a Rehabilitation Act claim
  • stating that “notice-of-claim statutes such as § 12-309 are not borrowed and applied to federal causes of action”
  • applying the Human Rights Act limitation period to discrimination claims under the Rehabilitation Act
  • declining to affirm summary judgment on a separate ground unaddressed by the trial court, especially in light of “unresolved discovery questions” raised in appellant’s Rule 56(d) affidavit

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Judges: Glickman, Thompson, Schwelb

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