Second Circuit: DeSuze et al. v. Ammon et al.

 

Statutory notice and comment provision in affordable housing rent increase procedures that places local approval prior to federal consideration do not create a procedural interest under the APA where a subsequent rulemaking reverses that order.

Statute of limitations begins to run, at a minimum, when a reasonably prudent person would have been able to determine the nature of the claim, not when the precise mechanism is explicitly  identified. (Here, apparently, when one of two APA claims became apparent.)

Relevant statutory statute of limitations is a claims-processing rule, not a jurisdictional bar; the court can therefore consider a claim for equitable tolling.

As the agency actions were discrete instances, the continuing action doctrine does not save the claim against the S1983 statute of limitations.


DeSuze et al. v. Ammon et al.