Porter v. Spader

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• recognizing that, as a matter of equity, a limitations period may be tolled when a defendant affirmatively defrauded or misled the plaintiff
• explaining statutes of limitation establish the period after which claims are “too stale to be enforceable”
• declining to apply equitable tolling in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, fraud, or concealment that misled the party from recognizing a legal wrong or seeking timely redress
• A limitation period may be equitably tolled when the defendant’s affirmative acts of fraud or concealment induced the plaintiff to delay seeking timely legal redress.

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