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CARRERAS-ROSA v. ALVES-CRUZ

No. 96-2370.

127 F.3d 172 (1997)

Luis CARRERAS-ROSA and Francisco Soler-Rosa, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Melvin ALVES-CRUZ, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Antonio Bauza-Torres on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Carlos Lugo-Fiol, Solicitor General, Edda Serrano-Blasini, Deputy Solicitor General, and Edgardo Rodriguez-Quilichini, Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal concerns the judgment dismissing a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint as untimely under the applicable Puerto Rico statute of limitations. We write to clarify that, applying Puerto Rico law, the day plaintiffs' action accrued should not be counted as the first day of the limitations period and that the limitations period begins to run on the following day. The prior decisions of this court and the district court for Puerto Rico may have been somewhat...

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