Opinion ID: 771084
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Heading: The Due Diligence Requirement

Text: 41 This Court has held that [e]quitable tolling requires a party to pass with reasonable diligence though the period it seeks to have tolled. Johnson v. Nyack Hosp., 86 F.3d at 12; see also Covey v. Arkansas River Co., 865 F.2d 660, 662 (5th Cir.1989) (It is a common maxim that equity is not intended for those who sleep on their rights.). In a situation where fraud or concealment of the existence of a claim prevents an individual from timely filing, equitable tolling of a statute of limitations is permitted until the fraud or concealment is, or should have been, discovered by a reasonable person in the situation. See Dodds v. Cigna Secs., Inc., 12 F.3d 346, 350 (2d Cir.1993); Bowers, 901 F.2d at 264 (2d Cir. 1990). 42