Legal Opinion
Morales v. City of Los Angeles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2000No. Nos. 98-56478, 99-55431PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs allege in this action that police perjury and other misconduct occurring in a previous civil rights lawsuit caused them to lose that case, thus depriving them of their due process right of access to the courts. This issue today concerns the statute of limitations. When does such a cause of action accrue? Does the statute of limitations begin to run when the plaintiffs lose their case in the trial court and have judgment entered against them? Or is it upon the unsuccessful exhaustion of all appeals of that judgment? We hold that it is the former, i.e.,…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Abramson v. University of HawaiiCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
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