ELR Citation: 40 ELR 20024
No(s). 7:09-CV-106 (E.D.N.C. Nov 10, 2010)

A district court held that North Carolina's general 10-year statute of repose does not bar a woman's lawsuit against the United States for injuries stemming from exposure to contaminated drinking water at a military base in North Carolina 20 years earlier. The North Carolina Legislature did not intend the 10-year statute of repose to refer to latent diseases. Thus, the statute cannot bar her claim involving non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a latent disease that only manifested in November 2003.