Legal Opinion
Nieves v. McSweeney
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 27, 2001No. 00-1110PublishedCited by 263 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The appellants, Angel Nieves and his eighteen-year-old daughter Rebecca, claim to be victims of police brutality. They waited a considerable period of time before bringing suit, however, and the district court turned them away, partially on timeliness grounds and partially for failure to proffer a federally-cognizable claim. Their appeal contends that the lower court misunderstood both the operation of the statute of limitations in civil conspiracy cases and the circumstances under which 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a vehicle for the maintenance of malicious prosecution…
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