Eleventh Circuit· 8/11/2003

Chappell v. Rich

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340 F.3d 1279
2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 16409

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holding that four-year statute of limitations applies to § 1983 claims
noting that § 1983 claims are governed by the statute of limitations for personal injury actions in the state in which the cause of action arose, which in Florida is four years
explaining that a § 1983 claim begins to accrue when the plaintiff “know[s] or should know (1) that [he has] suffered the injury that forms the basis of [his] complaint and (2) who has inflicted the injury” (cleaned up)
affirming failure to state a right to access claim where plaintiffs “d[id] not allege that they were or would have been prevented from filing” suit “nor that the [d]efendants’ actions would have made such a suit inadequate, ineffective, or not meaningful”
“Florida’s four-year statute of limitations applies to such claims of deprivation of rights under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985.”
§ 1983 deprivation of civil rights claim for denial of access to the courts

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