Dominguez v. United States, No. 13-2266 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseIn 2012, Plaintiff filed suit seeking money damages against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that, in 1998-1999, he was wrongfully detained and deported as an unauthorized alien despite his true status as a United States citizen. The district court granted the government’s motion to dismiss the case as time barred, thus rejecting Plaintiff’s claim that the federal discovery rule applied in his case to preclude dismissal. The First Circuit affirmed on statute of limitations grounds, holding that delayed accrual under the discovery rule was foreclosed by the factual allegations in Plaintiff’s complaint.
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