The following excerpt is from Cooper v. Bell, 628 F.2d 1208 (9th Cir. 1980):
11 When the complaint reveals that the statute of limitation has run, as it does here, the plaintiff has the burden of proving that it should be equitably extended. DeWitt v. United States, 593 F.2d 276, 281 (7th Cir. 1979).
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