CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 4421
Affirmative Defense—Statute of Limitations—Three-Year
Limit (Civ. Code, § 3426.6)
[Name of defendant] claims that [name of plaintiff]’s lawsuit was not filed
within the time set by law. To succeed on this defense, [name of
defendant] must prove that the claimed misappropriation of [name of
plaintiff]’s trade secrets occurred before [insert date three years before date
of filing].
However, the lawsuit was still filed on time if [name of plaintiff] proves
that before [insert date three years before date of filing], [he/she/ nonbinary
pronoun/it] did not discover, nor with reasonable diligence should have
discovered, facts that would have caused a reasonable person to suspect
that [name of defendant] had misappropriated [name of plaintiff]’s [select
short term to describe, e.g., information].
New April 2009
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
40a5744229b67048dde5582d5faee62881dde627105b6fc58b46fce67cf53355
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