Legal Opinion
Maricle v. Biggerstaff
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided April 1, 1998No. 3:97-cv-03029PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
FISH, District Judge.
Before the court is the motion of the defendants City of Commerce, Texas (“City”) and Lana Biggerstaff (“Biggerstaff,” collectively with the City, “defendants”) to dismiss the claims against them. For the following reasons, the motion is granted.
I. BACKGROUND
Seventeen years ago, Justice Powell decried the trivialization of constitutional law in trifling civil rights suits. See Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 554 n. 13, 101 S.Ct. 1908, 68 L.Ed.2d 420 (1981) (Powell, J., concurring). This is such a suit. This case involves the alleged deprivation of the…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Hudson v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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