Howard

Howard v. Lehman

Good Law
53 F. App'x 814
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 12, 2002Nos. 01-35708, 01-36090; D.C. No. CV-00-05408-RJB/JKACalifornia554 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Paul L. Howard, a Washington state prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s judgment dismissing his claims against Clark County Jail and the Columbia River Mental Health Services, and the district court’s summary judgment for the Washington Department of Corrections, in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that the defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and Howard’s civil rights by misdiagnosing him and forcibly administering psychiatric medications against his will. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Barnett v. Centoni 31 F.3d 813, 815-17 (9th Cir.1994), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Howard’s claims against Clark County Jail and Columbia River Mental Health Services and their employees as time-barred because Howard’s complaint alleges only misdiagnoses or forced administration of medications that occurred more than three years before Howard filed his complaint. See Wash. Rev.Code § 4.16.080; RK Ventures, Inc. v. City of Seattle, 307 F.3d 1045, 1058 (9th Cir. 2002). Howard alleges that he challenged the medications as early as 1994, which shows he was aware of his injury and…

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