Linda S. Nettles v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a New York Corporation

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• explaining that in diversity cases, federal courts “apply the law of the forum when ruling on statutes of limitations” (citing Guar. Tr. Co. v. York, 326 U.S. 99, 108–09 (1945)
• applying the forum state’s statute of limitations rules to determine the date of accrual
• “Under the capable-of-ascertainment test... a cause of action accrues when the injury to plaintiff was complete as a legal injury.... The most that is required is that some damages have been sustained, so that the claimants know that they have a claim for some amount.”
• de novo review for state law

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