Raymond Hughes v. United States

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• holding that the statute of limitations under the Federal Tort Claims Act [FTCA] \is an affirmative defense which the defendant has the burden of establishing.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that the two-year limitations period in the FTCA is subject to equitable tolling
• “the statute of limitations is tolled until the putative plaintiff possesses facts which would enable a reasonable person to dis- cover the alleged malpractice”
• nearly two years between discovery of injury and request for records
• applying equitable tolling to Federal Tort Claims Act

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