Chandler v. Presiding Judge

How courts have described this case

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• upholding tolling by Missouri’s prisoner incapacity statute until filing of claim, but refusing to consider whether that statute might be declared inapplicable as contrary to federal policy for the first time on appeal
• “Borrowing Missouri’s statute of limitations also requires borrowing Missouri’s tolling statutes.”
• although state statute of limitations applies, state tolling provision should not be used if inconsistent with federal policy
• although state statute of limitations applies, state tolling provision should not be used if inconsistent with federal policy
• Missouri’s personal injury statute of limitations, Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.120, applies to § 1983 claims
• “When a state statute is interpreted ‘a federal court is bound by the construction given the statute by the highest court within the state.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).