O'NEAL v. Division of Family Services

How courts have described this case

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

• “Tolling statutes based on mental incompetency are enacted to relieve from the strict time restrictions people ‘who are unable to protect their legal rights because of an overall inability to function in society.’” (citation omitted)
• “If we were to hold that a plaintiff who was aware of the facts constituting a cause of action could claim the benefit of the discovery rule if that plaintiff could show that some psychological problem prevented him or her from bringing suit against a defendant!

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).