Bishop v. Children's Center for Developmental Enrichment

OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge.

Courtland and Michelle Bishop and their minor disabled son CB1 brought suit against the private school to which CB had been assigned just less than three years after the school expelled CB. Ohio’s statute of limitations, which is applied to their federal constitutional claims, bars suit after two years. They argued their claims were statutorily tolled under Ohio’s minority tolling statute. The district court did not address this argument but instead dismissed the claims as time-barred, because it concluded that equitable tolling was not appropriate. We REVERSE and…