Camille E. Shora (Of Counsel-McLean, VA) and Richard Brahan (Associate-McLean, VA) obtained dismissal of a dental malpractice case when the Fairfax County Circuit Court found that the statute of limitations had run on the plaintiff’s case. The underlying claim dated back to 2015, but the suit was not served on the defendants until March 2021 after a convoluted history of filing, failure to serve, discontinuance, reinstatement, non-suit and refiling. The court agreed with Camille and Richard’s arguments that when the case was discontinued in May 2018, the plaintiff’s request for reinstatement two months later was a nullity because the statute through which court discontinued the case did not permit reinstatement and the court otherwise lacked jurisdiction to act on any such request. Since the statute of limitations began running again after the case’s discontinuance, the court found that time ran out on the plaintiff’s claim.