Legal Opinion
Corliss v. City of Fall River
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided November 1, 2005No. CIV.A. 05-11406-DPWPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOODLOCK, District Judge.
The Plaintiff has returned to this Court with a new federal civil rights theory nine months after I dismissed his first law suit, which involved a state law conversion claim against the same Defendants based upon the same set of underlying facts, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In the nine-month period between the dismissal of his first suit and the commencement of his second, the applicable three-year statute of limitations as to both his conversion and his civil rights claims ran out. As a consequence, the Plaintiff seeks refuge in the…
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