Case Name: Earvin EALY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GEO GROUP, INC., Warden, Payne, Health Service Administrator, McGinty, Classification Supervisor, Womble, Nurse, et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-06-30
Citations: 667 F. App'x 739
Docket Number: No. 14-14199
Parties: Earvin EALY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GEO GROUP, INC., Warden, Payne, Health Service Administrator, McGinty, Classification Supervisor, Womble, Nurse, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before MARTIN and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and COOGLER, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 667
Pages: 739–740

Head Matter:
Earvin EALY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GEO GROUP, INC., Warden, Payne, Health Service Administrator, McGinty, Classification Supervisor, Womble, Nurse, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 14-14199
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Date Filed: 06/30/2016
Earvin Ealy, Pro Se
Dade Cl Warden, Warden, Dade Cl— Inmate Trust Fund, Florida City, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant
Gwendolyn Palmer Adkins, Scott J. Sea-gle, Coppins Monroe Adkins & Dincman, PA, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendant-Ap-pellee GEO Group, Inc.
Gwendolyn Palmer Adkins, Scott J. Sea-gle, Coppins Monroe Adkins & Dincman, PA, Pam Bondi, Attorney General’s Office, Tallahassee, FL, for Defendants-Appellees Warden, Payne, Health Serv Administrator, McGinty, Classification Supervisor, Womble, Nurse
Before MARTIN and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and COOGLER, District Judge.
Honorable L, Scott Coogler, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, sitting by designation,

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Earvin Ealy is a Florida prisoner incarcerated in a prison run by the GEO Group. He appeals the district court's denial of his motion to file a third amended complaint in a lawsuit against the GEO Group and several of its employees. The district court determined that it would be futile to allow Ealy to amend his asserted claims related to the Rehabilitation Act because the statute of limitations for a claim like that was one year ' under Florida Statutes § 95.11(5)(g). Ealy filed his original complaint in July 2012, alleging claims based on events from 2008, 2009, and 2010. In light of its denial of Ealy's motion to amend, the district court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss his claims as time barred.
Ealy argues that a four-year limitations period should apply to his Rehabilitation Act claims. We agree. When a federal statute like the Rehabilitation Act does not provide a limitations period, "courts should look to the most analogous state statute of limitations." Everett v. Cobb Cty. Sch. Dist., 138 F.3d 1407, 1409 (11th Cir. 1998). Generally, the most analogous statute of limitations for federal civil rights actions is the state's limitations period for personal injury actions. Id.
This Court has on several occasions applied the four-year residual limitations period under Florida's personal injury statute, Florida Statutes § 95.11(3)(p), to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. See, e.g., Chappell v. Rich, 340 F.3d 1279, 1283 (11th Cir. 2003) (per curiam); Burton v. City of Belle Glade, 178 F.3d 1175, 1188 (11th Cir. 1999). This four-year residual limitations period applies to Ealy's Rehabilitation Act claims here as well. Because § 95.11(3)(p) applies to Ealy's claims under the Rehabilitation Act, they are not clearly time-barred and his proposed amendment would not be futile. This means the district court erred in denying Ealy's motion for leave to amend his complaint, and then dismissing his claims. We reverse and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
. We decline to address Ealy's remaining two claims, which were not presented before the district court in. Ealy's second amended complaint or in any other filings with the court.