A lawyer’s crooked conduct, even in an unrelated case, amounts to extraordinary circumstances warranting equitable tolling of the statute of limitations in his client’s personal injury suit, a federal judge held Wednesday.
The deadline should be fluid because attorney Ray Marchan’s misdeeds, bribing a judge in other cases, did not undermine the reasonableness of the plaintiff’s reliance on him, U.S. District Judge Renee Bumb said.
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