Arment v. Commonwealth National Bank

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

The Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, provides that:

[e]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.

To recover under this statute, plaintiff must…