Jordan v. La-Z-Boy East

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a cause of action is \something distinct from the remedy or the relief sought\
• “[T]he cause of action is something distinct from the remedy or the relief sought.” (quoting Dennison v. Payne, 293 F. 333, 344 (2d Cir. 1923)
• “[i]n the absence of a federal statute of limitations federal courts borrow the state statute of limitations applicable to the most similar state cause of action” [emphasis in original; internal quotation marks omitted]
• court declined to toll because as in Meyer “tolling was not needed to protect the remedial policy underlying the . . . § 1983 claim” and other policy factors counseled against tolling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).