Nial Ruth Cox v. A. M. Stanton, M.D.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the time of accrual under a civil rights action is a question of federal law and that occurs when a plaintiff knows of the injury or has reason to know of the injury that is the basis for the action
• section 1983 action for forced sterilization; limitations period began only when plaintiff learned that the operation was permanent
• action for damages brought against the County of Washington for deprivation of complainant’s thirteenth and fourteenth amendment rights
• where statute against which declaratory judgment was sought was no longer in effect, claim for declaratory judgment was moot
• “The time of accrual of a civil rights action is a question of federal law.”
• “The time of accrual of a civil rights action is a question of federal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).