Lounsbury v. Jeffries

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Linda Lounsbury and William R. Donaldson, Jr., appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Peter C. Dorsey, Judge, summarily dismissing their consolidated action, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) for false arrest, on the ground that their complaints were barred by Connecticut’s two-year statute of limitations. On appeal, plaintiffs contend that the state’s three-year statute should have been applied, and that, under the proper statute, their suits were timely filed. We agree, and we therefore reverse…