Methodist Homes for the Aged Fund v. Lawson

How courts have described this case

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• holding the statute of limitations for federal civil rights claims is governed by the forum state’s statute of limitations for personal injury actions
• noting that it is “the settled rule that exhaustion of state remedies is not a prerequisite 20 to an action under § 1983.” (cleaned up)
• stating that the state personal injury statute of limitations determines the period within which to bring an action under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981
• “For Fourth Amendment violations, federal law holds that a cause of action for illegal search and seizure accrues when the wrongful act occurs.”
• accrual of plaintiff’s racial discrimination claims did not depend on defendant’s rescission of disciplinary warning
• civil rights claim accrues under 16 federal law “when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the 17 action.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).