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Ninth Circuit· 1/30/1986

Gibson v. United States

Citations

  • 781 F.2d 1334
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 22062

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  • concluding that the plaintiff’s federal tort claim accrued on the date the plaintiff learned of the injury
  • explaining that “the incident alone immediately alerted [plaintiffs] to the fact of their injury” and that the new information merely “allegedly identified the culprit”
  • “[A] plaintiff is not expected to plead [] evidence or specific factual details not ascertainable in advance of discovery.”
  • “The Supreme Court . . 23 . explicitly restricted the statutory coverage [of § 1985(3)] to conspiracies motivated by 24 racial bias.”
  • “State action designed to retaliate against and chill political expression strikes at the heart of the First Amendment.”
  • also characterizing this type of police behavior designed to chill speech as retaliation

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