prod.liab.rep.(cch)p 13,643 Mary D. Hartnett Joseph P. Hartnett v. Schering Corporation

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• holding that plaintiff must have been able to obtain “knowledge of the alleged tort”
• affirming a grant of summary judgment where the district court found as a matter of law that plaintiff was on inquiry notice more than three years before the filing of the suit
• it is the knowledge of injury, not the knowledge of its cause that gives rise to the duty to investigate
• A plaintiff “should have known of a cause of action if ... an investigation pursued with reasonable diligence would have led to knowledge of the alleged tort.”
• “Under Maryland law a plaintiff should have known of a cause of action if (i) she has knowledge of circumstances which would cause a reasonable person in the position of the plaintiff to undertake an investigation and (ii

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