Thomas Kevin McDowell v. Delaware State Police John Campanella, Detective Peachey, Trooper Romanelli, Trooper Simpson, Trooper

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• holding that statute of limitations for § 1983 claims in Delaware is two years
• explaining that case initiating document titled “Motion for Compensation” that adequately notified defendants of the basis of the plaintiff’s claims should have been treated as a complaint
• agreeing that improperly captioned “pleading denominated ‘Motion for Compensation,’ which in substance, if not form, appeared to be intended as a complaint” was properly treated as a complaint
• noting with approval district court’s decision to construe document entitled “Motion for Compensation” as complaint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).