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· 11/6/1987

Mary Sue Sexton v. United States

Citations

  • 832 F.2d 629
  • 266 U.S. App. D.C. 17
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 17402

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • plaintiffs’ belief that death resulted from leukemia rather than negligence did not postpone accrual where plaintiff understood “basic nature of the [allegedly negligent] treatment”
  • internal quotation marks omitted; citing Kubrick, 444 U.S. at 120, 123, 100 S.Ct. 352
  • “Plaintiffs ... need only seek information outside the hospital to evaluate the known facts, in order to find out whether the doctors omitted a clearly superior alternative treatment.” (emphasis in original)

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Judges: Ginsburg, Williams, Robinson

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