United States Ex Rel. Brothers Builders Supply Co. v. Old World Artisans, Inc.

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• stating that a defendant must comply with the applicable statute of limitations where the claim “is an affirmative independent cause of action not in the nature of a defensive claim.... ”
• stressing the “common law rule that statutes of limitations do not run against pure defenses”
• where the defendant asserts an independent claim for affirmative relief against a codefendant, he must commence his own claim within the statute of limitations and may not rely on the plaintiff to toll the statute for him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).