Wilson v. Fountain City Oil & Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the continuing violation doctrine saved plaintiffs’ claims be- cause they provided an “adequate justification” for “waiting to bring the[m]”
• holding that continuing violation doctrine could not save plaintiff’s claims “that they have been injured by their very classification as sex offenders”
• ex- plaining that “[t]he statute of limitations for a constitutional chal- lenge to a statute is triggered by injury”
• “In the usual course, we start the limitations period when the plaintiff was injured.”
• explain- ing that injuries from statutes ordinarily occur when they are ap- plied
• “the statute of limitations begins to run when 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).