United States First Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act is affirmed where the doctrine of fraudulent concealment could not toll her claim, which accrued more than two years before she filed her administrative complaint.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2005
• Published 10/18/2005

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James P. Duggan, on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steve Frank, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Robert S. Greenspan, Attorney, Appellate Staff, were on brief, for appellee United States of America., William A. Brown, with whom Kate Miller Brown, were on brief, for appellee Robert Fitzpatrick.