Ormiston v. Nelson

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the accrual date for a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“section 1983”)1 claiming unconstitutional medical or psychiatric confinement is, like the accrual date for other unconstitutional confinements, the date of initial confinement, or whether medical and psychiatric confinements require application of a different rule. We hold that section 1983 claims based upon medical or psychiatric confinement, like other section 1983 claims, accrue when the plaintiff “knows or has reason to know of the injury which is…