Section 1983 - Judgment Search Results

Sub-committee of Judicial Accountability Vs. Union of India and Others

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1992SC320; JT1991(6)SC184; 1991(2)SCALE844; (1991)4SCC699; [1991]Supp2SCR1

..... months later see gall the canadian legal system 1983 p 189 14 under section 72 ii of the commonwealth of australia constitution ..... enquiries and the investigation of complaints or allegations described in section 40 section 40 provides that the council may conduct an enquiry to ..... any incapacity then the motion referred to in sub section 1 of section 3 shall together with the report of the committee .....

Blessing Vs. Freestone

Court: US Supreme Court

..... iv d 3 517 u s 1186 1996 iii section 1983 imposes liability on anyone who under color of state law ..... class enforceable through an action permitted by 42 u s c 1983 grant permanent and as necessary and appropriate interlocutory injunctions prohibiting ..... is only a rebuttable presumption that the right is enforceable under 1983 because our inquiry focuses on congressional intent dismissal is proper if .....

imbler Vs. Pachtman

Court: US Supreme Court

..... alleged deprivations of the accused s constitutional rights pp 424 u s 417 431 a section 1983 is to be read in harmony with general principles of tort immunities and defenses rather ..... immunity of a prosecutor from a suit for malicious prosecution likewise dictate absolute immunity under 1983 although such immunity leaves the genuinely wronged criminal defendant without civil redress against a .....

Wyatt Vs. Cole

Court: US Supreme Court

..... both arguments put forward by the court of appeals in folsom neither is availing iii section 1983 creates a species of tort liability that on its face admits of no immunities ..... these common law torts partially included an objective component probable cause private defendants sued under 1983 should be entitled to the objectively determined immediately appealable immunity from suit accorded certain .....

Tower Vs. Glover

Court: US Supreme Court

..... v rhodes 416 u s 232 1974 wood v strickland 420 u s 308 1975 section 1983 immunities are predicated upon a considered inquiry into the immunity historically accorded the relevant ..... conspiratorial action with state officials that deprives their clients of federal rights for purposes of 1983 immunities are predicated upon a considered inquiry into the immunity historically accorded the relevant .....

Buckley Vs. Fitzsimmons

Court: US Supreme Court

..... questions presented in petitioner s petition for certiorari 268 42 u s c 1983 are by now familiar section 1983 on its face admits of no defense of official immunity it subjects to ..... considerations allowed us to carve out new absolute immunities to liability for constitutional wrongs under 1983 we see little reason to suppose that qualified immunity would provide adequate protection to prosecutors .....

Wilkinson Vs. Dotson

Court: US Supreme Court

..... supra at 487 i e where a state prisoner requests present or future release section 1983 remains available for procedural challenges where success would not necessarily spell immediate or ..... suits challenging prison disciplinary proceedings indeed this court has repeatedly permitted prisoners to bring 1983 actions challenging the conditions of their confinement conditions that were ohio right might .....

Hafer Vs. Melo

Court: US Supreme Court

..... actions the principal issue in will was whether states are persons subject to suit under 1983 section 1983 provides in relevant part every person who under color of any statute ordinance regulation ..... whether state officials sued for monetary relief in their official capacities are persons under 1983 we held that they are not although state officials literally are persons an officialcapacity .....

Zinermon Vs. Burch

Court: US Supreme Court

..... of appeals is affirmed it is so ordered footnote 1 section 1983 reads every person who under color of any statute ..... determine whether as petitioners contend the parratt rule necessarily precludes 1983 liability in this case we must ask whether predeprivation ..... would indeed be strange to allow state officials to escape 1983 liability for failing to provide constitutionally required procedural page .....

West Vs. Atkins

Court: US Supreme Court

..... stat 148 11 148 19 1987 petitioner is not a minimum security prisoner footnote 3 section 1983 provides in relevant part every person who under color of any statute ordinance regulation ..... approval courts of appeals decisions holding prison doctors liable for eighth amendment claims brought under 1983 without mention of supervisory and custodial duties the court of appeals rationale would sharply .....