Shacklett v. Town of Island

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “California follows the common law rule that a personal representative cannot sue in his or her representative capacity outside the state of appointment”
• “DOHSA claims must be brought within three years of a decedent’s death.”
• “[A] personal representative is by definition a court-appointed executor or administrator of an estate, not merely an heir, ... and ... a personal representative must be a person empowered by law to administer the decedent’s estate.”
• “DOHSA claims must be brought within three years of a decedent’s death.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).