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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Grimes v. Housing Authority, 242 Conn. 236 (1997)

Citation
Grimes v. Housing Authority, 242 Conn. 236 (1997)
Parent Document
Grimes v. Housing Authority, 242 Conn. 236 (1997)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1997-07-29

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In American Pipe & Construction Co., the United States Supreme Court held that “the commencement of a class action suspends the applicable statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class who would have been parties had the suit been permitted to continue as a class action.” (Emphasis added.) Id., 554. In that case, the court approved the intervention of third parties on whose claims the statute of limitations would otherwise have run.8