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The case was significant because it held that 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a statutory provision from 1871, could be used to sue state officers who violated a plaintiff's constitutional rights. [3] § 1983 had previously been a relatively obscure and little-used statute, but since Monroe it has become a central part of United States civil rights law.
Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), is an opinion given by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court overruled Monroe v. Pape by holding that a local government is a "person" subject to suit under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the United States Code: Civil action for deprivation of rights. [1]
42 U.S.C. ch. 11—Compensation for Disability or Death to Persons Employed at Military, Air, and Naval Bases Outside United States; 42 U.S.C. ch. 12—Compensation for Injury, Death, or Detention of Employees of Contractors with United States Outside United States; 42 U.S.C. ch. 13—School Lunch Programs; 42 U.S.C. ch. 13A—Child Nutrition
Qualified immunity frequently arises in civil rights cases, [7] particularly in lawsuits arising under 42 USC § 1983 and Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents (1971). [8] Under 42 USC § 1983, a plaintiff can sue for damages when state officials violate their constitutional rights or other federal rights. The text of 42 USC § 1983 reads as ...
County of San Joaquin, No. 05-16071 [63] that a CPS social worker who removed children from their natural parents into foster care without obtaining judicial authorization was acting without due process and without exigency (emergency conditions) violated the 14th Amendment and Title 42 United States Code Section 1983. The Fourteenth Amendment ...
The Public Health Service Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1944. [2] The full act is codified in Title 42 of the United States Code (The Public Health and Welfare), Chapter 6A (Public Health Service). [3] This Act provided a legislative basis for the provision of public health services in the United States.
Whether exhaustion of state administrative remedies is required to bring claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in state court. Washington (Docket No. 23-191) is a pending United States Supreme Court case related to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
A few volumes of the official 2012 edition of the United States Code. The United States Code (formally the Code of Laws of the United States of America) [1] is the official codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States. [2] It contains 53 titles, which are organized into numbered sections. [3] [4]