Johnson v. Winthrop Laboratories Division of Sterling Drug, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting “discovery rule” for determining when a cause of action accrues
• statutes of limitations are within the legislative domain and courts have no authority to extend or modify the limits prescribed by statute
• “Lack of knowledge of a defamatory publication will not toll the statute of limitations; the statute of limitations begins to run at the time of publication.”
• “The legislature has not seen fit to provide a statutory tolling period to protect plaintiffs from their own ignorance although we held many years ago that such ignorance does not toll statutes of limitations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).