Court Opinion

ID: 9797124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:13:48.194528+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:23.590053
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HURWITZ, Justice,
concurring in part and concurring in the result.
¶ 23 The majority concludes that the Districts’ cause of action accrued when the Supreme Court of the United States decided Lassen v. Ariz. ex rel. Ariz. Highway Dep’t (Lassen II), 385 U.S. 458, 87 S.Ct. 584, 17 *568L.Ed.2d 515 (1967). I do not doubt that the relevant statute of limitations expired years before this suit was filed. But I do not believe that we need to decide today that a “reasonable person” would have received constructive notice of potential claims on the very day Lassen II was decided from a footnote in that opinion. An the Court notes, by June 4, 2003, the Districts’ counsel had actual knowledge of the facts underlying their claims. Op. ¶ 18 n. 8. Because this suit was filed more than a year later, I find it unnecessary to rely on a constructive notice fiction to set a precise earlier date of accrual. I therefore concur in ¶¶ 1-16 and 19-22 of the majority opinion and in the result.