Artis v. District of Columbia | Supreme Court - "Tolling" State claims Statute of Limitations period is suspended during the pendency of the federal suit

h/t Dubin Law Offices   SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus ARTIS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CERTIORARI TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS No. 16–460. Argued November 1, 2017—Decided January 22, 2018 Federal district courts may exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state claims not otherwise within their adjudicatory authority if those claims are “part of the same case or controversy” as the federal claims the plaintiff asserts. 28 U. S. C. §1367(a). When a district court dismisses all claims independently qualifying for the exercise of federal jurisdiction, it ordinarily also dismisses all related state claims. See §1367(c)(3). Section 1367(d) provides that the “period of limitations for” refiling in state court a state claim so dismissed “shall be tolled while the claim is pending [in federal court] and for a period of 30 days after it is dismissed unless State law provides for a longer tolling period.” When petitioner Artis filed a federal-court suit against respondent District of Columbia (District), alleging a federal employmentdiscrimination claim and three allied claims under D. C. law, nearly two years remained on the applicable statute of limitations for the D. C.-law violations. Two and a half years later, the Federal District Court ruled against Artis on her sole federal claim and dismissed the D. C.-law claims under §1367(c). Fifty-nine days after the dismissal, Artis refiled her state-law claims in the D. C. Superior Court, but that court dismissed them as time barred. The D. C. Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that §1367(d) accorded Artis only a 30-day grace period to refile in state court and rejecting her argument that the word “tolled” in §1367(d) means that the limitations period is suspended during the pendency of the federal suit.

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