Legal Opinion
Filarsky v. Delia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 17, 2012No. 10-1018PublishedCited by 581 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
Section 1983 provides a cause of action against state actors who violate an individual’s rights under federal law. 42 U. S. C. § 1983. At common law, those who carried out the work of government enjoyed various protections from liability when doing so, in order to allow them to serve the government without undue fear of personal exposure. Our decisions have looked to these common law protections in affording either absolute or qualified immunity to individuals sued under § 1983. The question in this case is whether an individual hired by the government to do its work is prohibited from…
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