Legal Opinion
Carreras-Rosa v. Alves-Cruz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 10, 1997No. 96-2370PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal concerns the judgment dismissing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint as untimely under the applicable Puerto Rico stat-' ute of limitations. We write to clarify that, applying Puerto Rico law, the day plaintiffs’ action accrued should not be counted as the first day of the limitations period and that the limitations period begins to run on the following day. The prior decisions of this court and the district court for Puerto Rico may have been somewhat inconsistent on that point. Therefore we take this opportunity to resolve any uncertainty.
I. Background
Plaintiffs’ brother was shot and…
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