Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Phillips
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 15, 1995No. 818, Docket 94-2377PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Unlike early English law, where according to Blaekstone there existed an established rule “that the king can do no wrong,” 1 W. Blaekstone, Commentaries *68, our jurisprudence was nourished in different soil. It is plain that sometimes a sovereign government can do wrong. In the present appeal more than a few wrongs have been charged by plaintiffs against several state officials. In examining these allegations of wrongdoing it is our task to decide whether they set forth only a cause of action in tort arising under state law or whether they rise to the level of a…
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