Malapanis v. Shirazi

How courts have described this case

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• finding that Massachusetts does not require discoveiy of each element of the cause of action elements “before the limitation clock . . . starts ticking”
• expressing concern that doctor’s statement that plaintiffs condition was not unusual “might deter . . . a . . . patient from seeking other medical advice”
• “On an appropriate record, summary judgment may be granted on the question whether a particular statute of limitations has run”
• “On an appropriate record, summary judgment may be granted on the question whether a particular statute of limitations has run”
• limitations period begins when reasonably prudent person “reacting to any suspicious circumstances of which he might have been aware ... should have discovered that he had been harmed”
• “limitations period begins when reasonably prudent person ‘reacting to any suspicious circumstances of which he might have been aware ... should have discovered that he had been harmed.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).