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UNITED STATES

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• Gordon v. State, 585 So. 2d 1033 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)
  …ocedure 1.540(b).11 See Taylor v. United States, 821 F. 2d 1428 (9th Cir.1987) (government did not waive claim to statutory limitation on noneconomic damages for professional negligence where it failed to assert it prior to judgment), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 992, 108 S.Ct. 1300, 99 L.Ed.2d 510 (1988); Federal Deposit Ins. Corp., v. Castle, 781 F. 2d 1101 (5th Cir.1986) (retroactive social security benefits subject to statutory limitation asserted for first time in Rule 60(b) motion); Meadows v. Cohen 409 F.…
• Simon v. United States, 891 F.2d 1154 (1st Cir. 1990)
  …). See also Jakobsen v. Massachusetts Port Authority, 520 F. 2d 810 (1st Cir.1975) (statutory limitation on liability is an affirmative defense under Rule 8(c)). But cf. Taylor v. United States, 821 F. 2d 1428, 1433 (9th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 992, 108 S.Ct. 1300, 99 L.Ed.2d 510 (1988) (California statutory limitation on noneconomic damages in actions based on professional negligence “is a limitation of damages rather than an affirmative defense”).2 [*1157] Our precedent in Ingraham regarding…
• Arcade Water Dist. v. United States, 940 F.2d 1265 (9th Cir. 1991)
  …aim within two years “after such claim accrues.” 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b). The FTCA further dictates that state law determines federal government liability. See 28 U.S.C. § 2674; Taylor v. United States, 821 F. 2d 1428, 1430 (9th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 992, 108 S.Ct. 1300, 99 L.Ed.2d 510 (1988) (federal government liability is determined in accordance with the law of the place where the tort occurred). California state law, therefore, both establishes Arcade’s claim and governs application of the two-…