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· 8/12/1987

Victoria Rosales Jesus Rosales Rebecca Rosales v. United States

Citations

  • 824 F.2d 799
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 10699

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that malpractice claim did not accrue in part because plaintiffs “relied on the assurances of the doctors that no harm had in fact occurred”
  • holding that if a federal court determines 11 that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction at any time during a dispute, the court must 12 dismiss the action
  • “For several months after Victoria was born, doctors repeatedly assured the Rosaleses that the child’s lazy lid was temporary and that no injury was present.”
  • “Ordinarily, a plaintiff cannot be expected to discover the general medical cause of his injury even before the doctors themselves are able to do so.”
  • statute of limitations did not start to run until doctors diagnosed both the injury of retardation and its cause
  • “Ordinarily, a plaintiff cannot be expected to discover the general medical cause of his injury even before the doctors themselves are able to do so.”

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Judges: Pregerson, Nelson, Wiggins

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