Legal Opinion
Jinks v. Richland County
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 22, 2003No. 02-258PublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
The Supreme Court of South Carolina dismissed petitioner’s lawsuit against Richland County (hereinafter respondent) as time barred. In doing so it held that 28 U. S. C. § 1367(d), which required the state statute of limitations to be tolled for the period during which petitioner’s cause of action had previously been pending in federal court, is unconstitutional as applied to lawsuits brought against a State’s political subdivisions. The issue before us is the validity of that constitutional determination.
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2Cases cited17 opinions
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