Walker v. Epps

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statute of limitations begins to run on “the date direct review of an individual case is complete or the date on which the challenged protocol was adopted”
• holding that Baze did not reset the date of accrual, in part because “as early as 1997 the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi recognized that inmates could challenge Mississippi’s lethal injection protocol in a § 1983 suit”
• holding that Baze did not reset the date of accrual, in part because “as early as 1997 the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi recognized that inmates could challenge Mississippi’s lethal injection protocol in a § 1983 suit”
• applying Mississippi law and finding continuing tort doctrine inapplicable to toll the statute of limitations for § 1983 claims challenging Mississippi’s execution protocol
• stating that “eleventh-hour filings are naturally suspect”
• “Just as we borrow the forum state’s statute of limitations for § 1983 purposes, we borrow also the state’s tolling principles.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).