United States Sixth Circuit

A personal injury plaintiff's filing of an in forma pauperis petition tolled Kentucky's one-year statute of limitations, and the district court erred in finding that the statute could not have been tolled as a matter of law by a mental disability caused by the injury giving rise to the litigation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/26/2003
• Published 02/26/2003

Judges

• Before:  GILMAN and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges;  ECONOMUS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen J. Isaacs (briefed), Lexington, KY, Elizabeth R. Overton (argued and briefed), William Gallion & Associates, Lexington, KY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregg E. Thornton (argued and briefed), Stacy L. Heineman (briefed), Clark, Ward & Cave, Lexington, KY, for Defendant-Appellee.