Opinion ID: 418010
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: State Law, Exhaustion, and Tolling

Text: 8 Griffen argues that the statute of limitations should have been tolled during the time he was exhausting state administrative remedies. During the pendency of this appeal the Supreme Court clarified this point in Patsy v. Board of Regents, --- U.S. ----, 102 S.Ct. 2557, 73 L.Ed.2d 172 (1982). Patsy held that state administrative exhaustion is not required to pursue a federal section 1983 action. Patsy specifically mentioned the continuing vitality of Board of Regents v. Tomanio, 446 U.S. 478, 100 S.Ct. 1790, 64 L.Ed.2d 440 (1980), which held that pursuing state remedies does not toll the statute of limitations for section 1983 actions. Patsy, --- U.S. at ---- n. 17, 102 S.Ct. at 2567 n. 17, 73 L.Ed.2d at 186 n. 17. Accordingly, any tolling must be by operation of state law. 9