Kripp v. Luton

CASSELL, District Judge.

This case requires us to determine when the statute of limitations begins to run for federal civil rights actions challenging a law enforcement seizure and subsequent forfeiture of property. The district court below dismissed appellant Paul Kripp’s complaint challenging the seizure and forfeiture of property he alleges is his. The district court found that he filed all of his causes of action outside the time prescribed by the applicable statutes of limitations because they all accrued when law enforcement seized his property, not later when the forfeiture proceedings…