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MERRIWEATHER v. CITY OF MEMPHIS

No. 96-5340.

107 F.3d 396 (1997)

Deborah MERRIWEATHER, Individually and as Daughter and Next of Kin of Jessie Ira Bogard, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF MEMPHIS; City of Memphis Police Department; W.W. Herenton, Individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Memphis, Tennessee; Walter J. Winfrey, Individually and in his official capacity as Police Director of the City of Memphis, Tennessee; Donna M. Locastro, Individually and in her official capacity as a police officer of the Memphis Police Department; Rick Butler, Individually and in his official capacity as a police officer of the Memphis Police Department; John Does I-X, Individually and as officers of the Memphis Police Department; Jane Does I-X, Individually and as officers of the Memphis Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Schaeffer, Jr., briefed, Schaeffer, Schaeffer & Clarke, Memphis, TN, Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael Fletcher, briefed, May, Norfleet & Fletcher, Memphis, TN, for City of Memphis, Memphis City Police Dept., W.W. Herenton, Walter J. Winfrey.

Debra L. Fessenden, briefed, Thomas Edwards Hansom, briefed, Law Offices of Thomas E. Hansom, Memphis, TN, for Donna M. Locastro, Rick W. Butler.

Before: ENGEL, MERRITT, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Deborah Merriweather appeals the dismissal of her civil rights claims. The district court dismissed the complaint based on the statute of limitations, holding that the statute had run the day before the complaint was filed. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the dismissal.

I. BACKGROUND

Merriweather filed this civil rights action against the City of Memphis, the Memphis Police Department, and multiple...

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