Nathson Fields v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• denying contra non valentem tolling to plaintiff whose throat cancer diagnosis “was constructive notice sufficient to put [him] on guard and to call him to inquire into the cause of his condition”
• plaintiff “claim[ed] to not have had knowledge of the radiation exposure” at his place of work
• “For purposes of contra non valentem, a plaintiff will be deemed to know what he could have learned with reasonable diligence.” (emphasis added)
• “Damage is considered to have been sustained on the date of diagnosis.”
• finding the same for an employee diagnosed with throat cancer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).