Franklin v. Warmington

ORDER

Tony Franklin brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Racine and a former Racine police officer, who, he asserts, violated his Fourth Amendment rights by forcibly removing him from a vehicle. The district court granted the defendants summary judgment based on their statute-of-limitations defense. Franklin, the court explained, filed the lawsuit more than one year after the statute of limitations had passed, and the defendants were not equitably es-topped from asserting this defense. On appeal Franklin asks us to adopt a new *374approach for applying equitable estoppel.…