Ronald Wolfe, Jr. v. Allan Perry

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• holding that, under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, that “a nonprevailing plaintiff’s ability to pay may be used as a factor to determine the size of the award, but not whether an award is appropriate in the first place”
• explaining that the statute of limitations for § 1983 claims brought in Michigan is the state’s three-year statute of limitations for personal- injury claims
• finding that courts can consider financial condition of pro se plaintiff when assessing appropriate amount of attorney’s fees under identical attorney’s fees standard, 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) and collecting cases
• stating that, because there is no applicable “statute of limitations governing § 1983 actions, federal courts must borrow the statute of limitations governing personal injury actions in the state in which the section 1983 action was brought.”
• applying federal accrual rules to a § 1983 claim and Michigan’s accrual rules to a Michigan civil rights claim
• reversing a district court’s determination that the complaint was filed after the statute of limitations had run

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).