Legal Opinion
Meyer v. Frank
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 12, 1977No. 66, Docket 76-7172PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
The question presented on this appeal is whether in a civil rights action under Sections 1983 and 1985 the applicable three year New York statute of limitations should be tolled during the period plaintiff pursued a remedy in the New York state courts. Under the circumstances of this ease, we hold that it should not. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court which dismissed the complaint as time-barred.
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Walter J. Meyer was a detective in the Nassau County Police Department (the Department). On June 25, 1970 a Nassau County grand jury indicted him and…
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