Speiser v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that plaintiffs decision to retain counsel in the months following her resignation demonstrated an awareness of her legal rights and mitigated her non compos mentis claim
• assuming, without deciding, that Rehabilitation Act time period tolled during hospitalizations
• using D.C. CODE § 12-302 as a “touchstone” for non compos mentis standard because “the objective standard in the [state] statute would protect defendants against specious allegations of mental incompetence advanced in efforts to save time-barred claims.”
• “While plaintiff clearly suffers from a legitimate mental illness, she has failed to demonstrate that it disabled her to the requisite degree.”
• hospitalization, depression, and obsession, where plaintiff never “let someone else handle her affairs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).