Wilson v. Garcia, No. 83-2146 (U.S. Supreme Court) (471 U.S. 261; 105 S.Ct. 1938) (April 17, 1985) (Justice Stevens)
Justice O'Connor dissented, stating that she found "no justification, given our longstanding interpretation of 42 U.S.C. 1988 and Congress' awareness of it, for abandoning the rule that courts must identify and apply the statute of limitations of the state claim most closely analogous to the particular 1983 claim. In declaring ...
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