Mary L. Goodhand v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a plaintiff has the statutory period to investigate potential claims to recover for an injury
• “The statute of limitations begins to run upon the discovery of the injury, even if the full extent of the injury is not discovered until much later.”
• “The statute of limitations begins to run upon the discovery of the injury, even if the full extent of the injury is not discovered until much later.”
• “Even if [plaintiff] knows that he has been injured, if he does not know who or what inflicted the injury,” the claim cannot said to have accrued.
• “[T]he statute of limitations ... begins to run on the date when the plaintiff discovers that he has been injured by an act or omission attributable to the defendant. The plaintiff then has the statutory period to determine whether the act or omission was negligent, and to proceed from there.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).