United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiffs' 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint was timely filed because Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 3 and 6(a) govern the computation of time for the purposes of the statute of limitations when the underlying cause of action is federal rather than state.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2002
• Published 10/29/2002

Judges

• Before: FERGUSON, W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mikel R. Miller, Bend, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert E. Franz, Jr., Springfield, OR, for defendants-appellees City of Bend, Buck Church, and Tom Pine., Robert S. Wagner, Miller & Wagner LLP, Portland, OR, for defendant-appellee Al Campbell.