Michael C. Veal v. Anthony Geraci, Detective, New York City Police Department and John Doe, Police Officer, New York City Police Department

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• holding that a § 1983 claim accrues \when the alleged conduct has caused the claimant harm and the claimant knows or has reason to know of the allegedly impermissible conduct and the resulting harm\
• holding that claims can accrue before a plaintiff obtains all relevant proof
• imputing plaintiff’s attorney’s knowledge to the plaintiff and dismissing claims as time-barred
• where knowledge acquired by counsel was imputed to plaintiff at the time that his counsel received said information
• “[WJhether or not Veal himself heard Geraci’s testimony, Veal’s attorney plainly had knowledge of the conduct giving rise to Veal’s present claim, and under traditional principles of agency the attorney’s knowledge must be imputed to Veal”
• “the claim accrues when the alleged conduct has caused the claimant harm and the claimant knows or has reason to know of the allegedly impermissible conduct and the resulting harm”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).