United States Ninth Circuit

A plaintiff is entitled to equitable tolling of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim for wrongful withholding payments as part of a Medi-Cal fraud investigation, where individual defendants in the state controller's office had adequate notice of possibility of suit.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2002
• Decided 09/26/2002
• Published 09/26/2002

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before: WARDLAW, W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and WHYTE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patric Hooper,Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth G. Lake, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellees.