Legal Opinion
Jones v. R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 3, 2004No. 02-1205PublishedCited by 928 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
Like many federal statutes, 42 U. S. C. § 1981 does not contain a statute of limitations. We held in Goodman v. Lukens Steel Co., 482 U. S. 656, 660 (1987), that federal courts should apply “the most appropriate or analogous state statute of limitations” to claims based on asserted violations of § 1981. Three years after our decision in Goodman, Congress enacted a catchall 4-year statute of limitations for actions arising under federal statutes enacted after December 1, 1990. 28 U. S. C. § 1658. The question in this case is whether petitioners’ causes of action, which allege violations of §…
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