K.E.S. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that if a plaintiff has been blamelessly ignorant of an injury, his cause of action does not accrue until he knows of the fact of injury and its cause
• indicating that if a plaintiff has been blamelessly ignorant of an injury, his cause of action does not accrue until he knows of the fact of injury and its cause
• FTCA claim arising from repeated sexual assault accrued at the time of the attacks, even though plaintiff was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
• “Misapprehension of the seriousness or permanency of an injury does not toll the statute of limitations under the FTCA.”
• “[m]isapprehension of the seriousness or permanency of an injury does not toll the statute of limitations under the FTCA.”
• FTCA claim generally accrues at the time of the plaintiff’s injury, unless the plaintiff is in “blameless ignorance” of the injury, in which case the cause of action does not accrue until the plaintiff knows of the fact of the injury and its cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).