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CARTER v. WASHINGTON METRO. AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY

No. 83-1858.

764 F.2d 854 (1985)

Annie CARTER v. WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 14, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jordan S. Himelfarb, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Patrick J. Christmas, Washington, D.C., with whom Joseph A. Blaszkow, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before WALD and BORK, Circuit Judges, and McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge McGOWAN.

McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

This personal injury suit requires us to decide an apparently novel question regarding the statute of limitations: Does the filing of a suit in the local D.C. court toll the statute of limitations with respect to a suit filed in the federal courts raising the same claim, where the latter suit is filed after the local trial court rules itself without jurisdiction in...

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