Any action brought under the federal civil rights statutes may be commenced only within three years after the alleged constitutional deprivation has occurred. This section is prospective in application.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-2-15.2
Time for bringing action under federal civil rights statutes
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Morgan v. Baldwin (1990)
Most recently applied in 737 F. Supp. 2d 992 - Lucero v. Bush (September 2010)
Source: SL 1983, ch 155, § 1; SL 1986, ch 158.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.