Legal Opinion
Madden-Tyler v. Maricopa County
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided March 6, 1997No. 1 CA-CV 96-0162PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYAN, Judge.
Congress did not enact specific statutes of limitations for claims brought under § 1983 of the Civil Rights Act, § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Instead, the time limits of the most appropriate state statute are to be applied. In this appeal, we hold that the most appropriate statute of limitations for all three acts is Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated (“A.R.S.”) § 12-542, setting a two-year limit for personal injury actions. Accordingly, we conclude that the trial court erred in applying different statutes of…
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