Continuing violation

The continuing violation doctrine matters when harmful conduct happens over a long stretch of time, like ongoing harassment or a long-running nuisance. Instead of forcing the person to sue separately for each act, the doctrine lets them treat the whole pattern as a single claim. That way, as long as some of the conduct happened within the deadline, older acts can still be part of the lawsuit. The doctrine is applied narrowly and does not cover every kind of repeated harm. Some courts limit it to truly indivisible patterns and exclude separate, discrete acts that each had their own clock.