Rozar v. Mullis

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• noting that in Georgia, the statute of limitations for a § 1983 claim is two years
• stating that 42 U.S.C. § 1983 actions are governed by the pertinent state’s limitation period for personal-injury actions
• accepting a party’s concession that there was no evidence that the defendants had violated the Fourteenth Amendment
• “[A]s to section 2000d [of Title VI], we hold that Georgia’s two- year personal injury limitations period applies. . . . .”
• “We turn next to whether plaintiffs’ causes of action against each group of defendants accrued before or after August 15, 1992, this being the date two years before the present complaint was filed on August 15, 1994.”
• “The general federal rule is that the statute [of limitations] does not begin to run until the facts which would support a cause of action are apparent or should be apparent to a person with a reasonably prudent regard for his rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).