Wisenbaker v. Farwell.

• Position: ACCESS TO COURT - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

PLRA -- Prisoner Litigation Reform Act

Wisenbaker v. Farwell, 341 F.Supp.2d 1160 (D.Nev. 2004). A state prison inmate brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that acts and omissions of corrections staff allowed a fellow inmate to violently attack and injure him. The district court denied the defendants motion to dismiss. The court held that the limitations period for a [section] 1983 was equitably tolled during the pendency of the inmate's administrative grievance against officials, and that equitable tolling was...