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MORALES v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Nos. 98-56478, 99-55431.

214 F.3d 1151 (2000)

Aurelio Cervantes MORALES, an individual, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, a municipal corporation, Antonia Dimarco-Serna, an individual, Bennie Boatwright, an individual, Stan Nelson, an individual, Gregory D. Beckley, an individual, John Chavez, an individual, Defendants-Appellees. Guadalupe Medrano, Amparo Medrano, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. City of Los Angeles, William Hall, Robert Seeman, Don S. Anderson, Rodolfo Romero, Donnelly Mallory, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 12, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Cook, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Katherine J. Hamilton, Assistant City Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: FERNANDEZ, TASHIMA, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs allege in this action that police perjury and other misconduct occurring in a previous civil rights lawsuit caused them to lose that case, thus depriving them of their due process right of access to the courts. This issue today concerns the statute of limitations. When does such a cause of action accrue? Does the statute of limitations begin to run when the plaintiffs lose their case in the trial court...

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