Reversing the Second Circuit and resolving a split among federal circuits, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the statute of limitations for a civil claim based on allegedly fabricated criminal evidence begins to run when the criminal proceedings end in that civil claimant’s favor and not before.

The 6-3 majority ruling appears to give plaintiffs found in certain circuits—including in the Second Circuit—more time than they’d had to sue prosecutors and others who have may have put forward false evidence against them in a criminal trial or other criminal proceeding.