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Eleventh Circuit· 12/1/1997

White v. Mercury Marine

Citations

  • 129 F.3d 1428
  • 1998 A.M.C. 305
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 33791

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that when Congress uses the word “accrue,” they mean when the plaintiff has discovered their injury
  • explaining that we ordinarily presume that Congress “act[s] with the knowledge of existing law and interpretations when it passes new legislation”
  • explaining that we ordinarily presume that Congress “act[s] with the knowledge of existing law and interpretations when it passes new legislation”
  • refusing to apply the discovery rule to a maritime worker’s claim against a manufacturer of marine engines for hearing loss he suffered in the course of three decades of occupational exposure
  • “Congress is assumed to act with the knowledge of existing law and interpretations when it passes new legislation.”
  • \Congress is assumed to act with the knowledge of existing law and interpretations when it passes new legislation.\

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Judges: Anderson, Dubina, Carnes

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