Jessica Brionna Baker v. the State of Texas

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• holding that the plaintiffs had sufficient information when they discovered contaminants in their well with “reason to suspect the source might have been the neighboring property” because they knew that various chemicals had been used on the neighboring property
• noting de novo review of “a district court’s ruling regarding the applicability of a statute of limitations” (quoting Indus. Constructors Corp. v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 15 F.3d 963, 967 (10th Cir. 1994))
• “The general accrual rule for FTCA claims is the ‘injury-occurrence rule,’ where the tort claim accrues on the date of injury.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “We also review de novo a district court’s ruling regarding the applicability of a statute of limitations.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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