Owens v. Okure

How courts have described this case

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• holding that section 1983 claims borrow the statute of limitations periods from state law for personal injury actions
• holding that a state’s general personal injury statute of limitations applies to § 1983 actions
• holding that § 1983 claims are governed by a state’s residual or general personal injury statute of limitations
• holding that the residual or general applicable state per sonal injury statute of limitations should be applied in § 1983 actions
• holding that the most appropriate statute of limitations in a § 1983 action is found in the “general or residual [state] statute [of limitations] for personal injury actions”
• holding that § 1983 claims look to the general state-law limitations statute for personal-injury actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).