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· 11/8/2002

City of Hialeah, Florida v. Eterio Rojas

Citations

  • 311 F.3d 1096
  • 54 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 142
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 23252
  • 83 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 41,245
  • 90 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 467

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that district court erred in concluding as a matter of law that news reports of defendants' conduct were sufficiently numerous and notorious to impute knowledge of them to plaintiffs
  • explaining the statute of limitations for a § 1983 action is borrowed from the forum state’s personal injury statute of limitations, which in Florida is four years
  • \This Court requires that a plaintiff who wishes to bring a lawsuit on behalf of a class of individuals ... must ... have standing to bring the claim....\
  • “Section 1983 claims are governed by the forum state’s residual personal injury statute of limitations, which in Florida is four years.” (citations omitted)
  • “Section 1983 claims are governed by the forum state’s residual personal injury statute of limitations, which in Florida is four years”
  • “Section 1983 claims are governed by the forum state’s residual personal injury statute of limitations, which in Florida is four years”

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Judges: Tjoflat, Wilson, Restani

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