United States Tenth Circuit

Plaintiffs' suit, seeking damages resulting from riots that occurred in 1921, is dismissed as time barred where plaintiffs' claims cannot withstand scrutiny under either an accrual analysis or pursuant to equitable tolling principles.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2004
• Published 09/09/2004

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, BARRETT, Senior Circuit Judge, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Hausfeld, Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC (Agnieszka M. Fryszman, Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC;  Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA;  Suzette Malveaux, University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL;  Michele A. Roberts, Shea & Gardner, Washington, DC;  Eric J. Miller, Western New England College School of Law, Springfield, MA;  Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations In America (N'COBRA), Washington, DC;  Leslie Mansfield, University of Tulsa, Boeshe Legal Clinic, Tulsa, OK;  James O. Goodwin, Goodwin & Goodwin, Tulsa, OK;  Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Law Offices of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., New York, NY;  Dennis C. Sweet III, Sweet & Freese, P.L.L.C., Jackson, MS;  Sharon Cole Jones, Tulsa, OK;  Rose Sanders, Selma, AL;  Willie E. Gary, Lorenzo Williams, and Tricia Purks Hoffler, Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis, McManus, Watson & Sperando, Stuart, FL, with him on the briefs), appearing for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Larry V. Simmons, Deputy City Attorney (Martha Rupp Carter, City Attorney, and Robert R. Edmiston, Assistant City Attorney, with him on the brief), City of Tulsa, OK, appearing for Defendants-Appellees Tulsa Police Department, the City of Tulsa, and the Chief of Police of the City of Tulsa., Wellon B. Poe, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, OK, appearing for Defendant-Appellee State of Oklahoma.