Legal Opinion
Rixson Merle Perry v. John Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 14, 2000No. 99-2508PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Two years and a month after a traffic accident that caused the plaintiff, Rixson Perry, to incur some legal difficulty, he filed a one-count lawsuit claiming that a false arrest violated his civil rights. The statute of limitations for such claims requires the complaint to be filed within two years, and the defendant, Police Officer John Sullivan, eventually moved for dismissal on that ground. We say “eventually” because the motion to dismiss did not come until two more years had passed since the accident. In a show of chutzpah, Perry argued that Sullivan waited too long…
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