Sadie Boyd, Madeline Klein & Town of Whitingham v. State

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• memorandum that described proposed additional claim without proposed amended complaint attached sufficed for purposes of motion to amend
• operative date for calculating statute of repose is date of filing motion for leave to amend complaint to add party
• “The purpose of a statute of repose is to give particular types of defendants the benefit of a date certain on which their liability for past conduct will definitively come to an end”
• relation back rule of Mass. R. Civ. P. 15 [c] inapplicable where literal application would be contrary to purposes underlying seven-year statute of repose for medical malpractice tort claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).