Legal Opinion
Stanley A. Anton v. Glen Lehpamer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 2, 1986No. 85-2565PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
In this case, we must decide whether Wilson v. Garcia, — U.S.-, 105 S.Ct. 1938, 85 L.Ed.2d 254 (1985), should apply retroactively when a federal court sitting in Illinois borrows the state’s statute of limitations in an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1979). 1 We hold that, in Illinois, a plaintiff whose section 1983 cause of action accrued before the Wilson decision, April 17, 1985, must file suit within the shorter period of either five years from the date his action accrued or two years after Wilson.
On December 21, 1978, the defendants, police officers from Downers…
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