Pagliuca v. City of Boston

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that although the plaintiff did not know the severity of the harm she suffered, the statute of limitations began running when “she knew of all the facts necessary to make out her civil rights claim”
• distinguishing between the time-of-first-wrongful-aet standard applicable to federal and state civil rights statutes and time-of-injury standard applicable to common law civil conspiracy
• determining applicable limitations period based on “gravamen of the complaint” rather than its characterization as tort or contract
• commencing the statutory period on the date of the act which caused the injury
• three-year statute of limitation period applies to breach of contract claims where the “gravamen of the complaint is that the defendant has caused plaintiff a personal injury”
• tort cause of action accrues when plaintiff is injured or when plaintiff knows or reasonably should know that he has been injured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).