The following excerpt is from Alexopulos By and Through Alexopulos v. San Francisco Unified School Dist., 817 F.2d 551 (9th Cir. 1987):
7 A child who has reached majority and is not incapacitated can represent his own interests in claims not already barred by the statute of limitations. See Vander Malle v. Ambach, 673 F.2d 49, 52 (2d Cir.1982) (parents of child who is eighteen and hence an adult under New York law, have standing to maintain suit, as does child).
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