Opinion ID: 696596
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Wrong Statute of Limitations

Text: 32 The plaintiffs' claim that the district court applied the wrong statute of limitations is meritless. The plaintiffs cite to two Ohio Court of Appeals decisions which hold that Ohio's four-year residual statute of limitations is the proper statute of limitations in Sec. 1983 cases. See Bojac Corp. v. Kutevac, 64 Ohio App.3d 368, 581 N.E.2d 625, 627 (1990) (holding that Ohio Rev.Code Sec. 2305.09(D) is the most logical and appropriate [statute of limitations in a Sec. 1983 action] based on the United States Supreme Court holding in Owens v. Okure [488 U.S. 235, 109 S.Ct. 573, 102 L.Ed.2d 594 (1989) ]); Weethee v. Boso, 64 Ohio App.3d 532, 582 N.E.2d 19, 21 (1989) (holding Ohio Rev.Code Sec. 2305.09(D) is the appropriate statute of limitations in Sec. 1983 actions). If this Court had not spoken on this issue, these Ohio cases might be persuasive; however this Court, sitting en banc, squarely addressed this issue in Browning v. Pendleton, 869 F.2d 989 (6th Cir.1989) (en banc), and definitively held that the appropriate statute of limitations for 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 civil rights actions arising in Ohio ... requires that actions ... be filed within two years after their accrual. Id. at 992. On at least one occasion after Browning and after the two Ohio Court of Appeals decisions, we have been invited to revisit the issue and have declined to do so. See Hull v. Cuyahoga Valley Joint Vocational Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., 926 F.2d 505, 510 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 501 U.S. 1261, 111 S.Ct. 2917, 115 L.Ed.2d 1080 (1991). 2 The district court's application of the two-year limitation period was not erroneous.