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· 1/30/2001

Clavette v. Sweeney

Citations

  • 132 F. Supp. 2d 864
  • 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2329
  • 2001 WL 208517

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that Kubrick’s reference to “who has inflicted the injury” was dictum
  • “[A] cause of action accrues when the plaintiff knows of the injury and its physical cause even if the plaintiff does not know who inflicted the harm.”
  • “a cause of action accrues when the 9 plaintiff knows of the injury and its physical cause even if the plaintiff does not know who 10 inflicted the harm”
  • plaintiffs section 1983 claim was time barred; under Kubrick, “the statute of limitations begins to run as soon as the plaintiff knows he or she has been injured and knows the physical cause of that injury”

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Judges: Brown

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