Legal Opinion
López-González v. Municipality of Comerío
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 21, 2005No. 04-1633PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-Appellants appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico dismissing as time-barred their § 1983 action. That action was a refiling of their prior identical action that had been involuntarily dismissed without prejudice as a sanction for plaintiffs’ repeated failure to abide by the court’s orders to proceed with various types of discovery. Plaintiffs insist that the dismissal of their action triggered the re-running of Puerto Rico’s one-year statute of limitations, allowing them up to a year to refile the…
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