Legal Opinion
Michael Sain Ryan White Lori J. Sain, Personally and as Next Friend for Crystal Sain v. City of Bend Buck Church Tom Pine Al Campbell
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 29, 2002No. 00-36033PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge WILLIAM A. FLETCHER; Concurrence by Judge KING.
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court, and the court dismissed on the ground that plaintiffs’ complaint was barred by the two-year statute of limitations under Or.Rev.Stat. § 30.275. We reverse on two independently sufficient grounds. First, we hold that plaintiffs’ complaint was timely filed be*1136cause we look to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 3 and 6(a) to compute time for the purposes of the statute of limitations when the underlying cause of action is…
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