Legal Opinion
Jackson v. City of Joliet
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 1983No. Nos. 82-2833 to 82-2835PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
No problem so perplexes the federal courts today as determining the outer bounds of section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the ubiquitous tort remedy for deprivations of rights secured by federal law (primarily the Fourteenth Amendment) by persons acting under color of state law. In the present cases, which are before us on interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) from denial of the defendants’ motions to dismiss the complaints for failure to state a claim, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), the specific question is whether the negligent failure of…
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3Cited by164 opinions
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