California Court of Appeal

Dismissal of plaintiff's defamation action, as barred by the one-year statute of limitations, is reversed where it should have been tolled under the doctrine of delayed discovery since the alleged libel was hidden or beyond what an ordinary person could be expected to immediately detect.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/12/2005
• Published 05/12/2005

Judges

• KLINE, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Kleven, Berkeley, Law Office of Paul Kleven, Attorneys for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael C. Cooper, Carlson, Calladine & Peterson LLP, Barry W. Lee, San Francisco, Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, Attorneys for Respondents.