The following excerpt is from Fid. Nat'l Fin., Inc. v. Friedman, No. 13-15954 (9th Cir. 2015):
We previously addressed 1963 in Hilao v. Estate of Marcos, 536 F.3d 980, 988 (9th Cir. 2008). In that case, we held that the registering state's statute of limitations, as opposed to the statute of limitations of the original judgment's state, applied to registered judgments, because "registering a judgment under 1963 is the functional equivalent of obtaining a new judgment of the registration court." Id. at 989. The same logic applies here. By the plain language of 1963, a registered judgment has the "same
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