Shaun R. Johnson v. Officer Ruben Rivera, Officer Matthew Martinez, Officer Geoffrey Howard, and Officer William Pellegrini

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• explaining that federal courts adopt the forum state’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims, which is two years in Illinois
• holding “[t]here can be no question that a federal court applying Illinois law must toll the statute of limitations if a ‘statutory prohibition’ exists that prevents a plaintiff’s cause of action.”
• noting that tolling applies “while a prisoner completes the administrative grievance process”
• the statute of limitations will be tolled during the time the time a plaintiff is exhausting related administrative remedies
• “Section 1983 does not contain an express statute of limitations, so federal courts adopt the forum state’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims.”
• “We thus hold that in the ordinary case, a fed- eral court relying on the Illinois statute of limitations in a § 1983 case must toll the limitations period while a prisoner completes the administrative grievance process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).