Section 1983 violations cases
[DOCX File]Third Circuit | United States Court of Appeals
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As noted previously, the Committee chose the topics for its substantive instructions (concerning Section 1983 claims and employment-related claims) because those topics frequently arise in cases litigated within the Third Circuit. The index that follows lists model …
[DOC File]PLAINTIFF’S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO …
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The defendants thus propose an unusually strict “physical proximity” or “physical contact” requirement that finds no support in either the text of Section 1983 or the many decades of case law interpreting the statute, and that would grant correctional officers and other State actors virtually limitless immunity in a large class of cases ...
[DOC File]SECTION 21: GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES, PRISONER
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RETALIATION Black v. Lane, 22 F.3d 1395 (7th Cir. 1994). An Illinois inmate filed a Section 1983 suit against prison officials, alleging violation of his civil rights in the form of harassment, false disciplinary charges, segregation, and other punishment. A hearing was held on the issues of damages.
[DOCX File]Third Circuit | United States Court of Appeals
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Of course, in order to find liability under Section 1983, the jury must in any event find a violation of the plaintiff’s federal rights; and it will often be the case that the relevant act in violation of the plaintiff’s federal rights would necessarily have constituted an action by a co-conspirator in furtherance of the conspiracy.
[DOC File]Filed 5/11/06 - California Courts
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Moreover, to afford such an immunity even for good-faith constitutional violations would be contrary to the purposes of section 1983. Section 1983 was intended not only to provide compensation to the victims of past abuses, “but to serve as a deterrent against future constitutional deprivations, as well.” (Owen, supra, 445 U.S. at p. 651.)
[DOCX File]Prosecutorial Misconduct
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Nov 29, 2011 · In 1961, the Court held in Monroe v. Pape that § 1983 applied (federal statute) when police officers violated a person's civil rights by an abuse of their job, despite the availability of a state remedy. Since Monroe, § 1983 has been the main statute which is applied when civil rights violations are alleged against state and local officials.
[DOC File]Gorman v. Bishop - ADA
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Brown, 683 F.2d 261, 268 (8th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1210 (1983). Section 1983 and Bivens plaintiffs must, therefore, look to persons acting in their individual capacities under color of either state or federal law for civil damages. The same is not true of section 504 and title II of the ADA.
[DOC File]California Courts
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The cases applying Heck to California plaintiffs who have suffered section 148 convictions have proceeded upon the unspoken assumption that the crime of which the federal section 1983 plaintiffs stood convicted was the same crime described in Heck’s footnote 6; i.e., “resisting arrest.” (Heck, supra, 512 U.S. at p. 486, fn. 6 [129 L.Ed.2d ...
United States Courts
D.Section 1983 allows defendants to be found liable only when they have acted "under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia."
[DOC File]Gallowayway v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia
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Section 505 of the Rehabilitation Act does not itself specify what remedies are available for violations of section 504. Rather, it adopts the rights and remedies available under title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d et seq., which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in federally ...
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