Adler v. Beverly Hills Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a cause of action for false imprisonment accrues for the purpose of the statute of limitations when the unlawful detention ends
• “We may concede that a person falsely imprisoned has the right to sue on the first day for his detention”
• “We hold that false imprisonment is a continuing tort and that the cause of action for the entire period of imprisonment accrues when the detention ends.”
• “We hold that false imprisonment is a continuing tort and that the cause of action for the entire period of imprisonment accrues when the detention ends.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).