Corliss v. City of Fall River

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction was a dismissal for a “matter of form” for purposes of the renewal statute
• applying savings statute to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims, which also borrow the state limitations period
• applying Massachusetts law and holding that the renewal statute “cannot save any renewed claims against * * * unnamed and consequently unserved defendants”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).