Legal Opinion
Gary Baskin and Beulah Baskin v. Eugene Parker and Curtis L. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 24, 1979No. 76-4071PublishedCited by 192 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Before COLEMAN, CLARK and RUBIN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:
We withdraw our prior opinion, 5 Cir., 588 F.2d 965, and substitute the following:
“[T]he King hath no prerogative, but that which the law of the land allows him,” declared Sir Edward Coke in Proclamations, 12 Co.Rep. 74, 76 (1611). Now, over three centuries later, we examine further the scope of the principle that those who enforce the law must themselves obey it in the light of the federal Civil Rights Act that permits suit against every person who under color of a state law subjects any citizen to the…
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