Collier v. City of Pasadena

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• holding that a party is not entitled to equitable tolling unless that party acted reasonably and in good faith to assert his claims during the limitations period
• holding that a party is not entitled to equitable tolling unless that party acted reasonably and in good faith to assert his claims during the limitations period
• noting that, “if the plaintiff deliberately misled the defendant into believing the second claim would not be filed, that action might be deemed to constitute bad faith”
• discussing indicia courts may consider in assessing good faith, and ruling that waiting to file a second action does not necessarily demonstrate a lack of good faith
• noting that the first element of equitable tolling requires that a \first claim must have been filed within the statutory period” that \alert[ed] the defendant in the second [action] of the need to begin investigating the facts which form the basis of the second claim”
• providing 1 federal civil rights action was not equitably tolled by the plaintiff’s previous filing of state tort 2 claims based upon related facts because they address different “wrongs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).