Christopher Poulain v. G. Gulick
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
Christopher Paul Poulain (Poulain) appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants on the basis that his action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was untimely.
The district court did not err in granting summary judgment on Poulain’s § 1983 action because no material issue of fact existed regarding when Poulain discovered his injury. Poulain’s injury accrued on February 21, 2007, when he learned that the removed growth was benign. See Bonneau v. Centennial Sch. Dist. No. 28J, 666 F.3d 577, 581 (9th Cir. 2012) (holding that a “cause of action accrues…
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