Ellis D. Burrell v. Jimmy Newsome, Chief of Police, Port Arthur Police Dept.

How courts have described this case

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• “[F]ederal courts borrow the forum state’s general personal injury limitations period [for claims brought under 1983].”
• a cause of action accrues “when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).