479 F. Supp. 1069 - DeVasto v. Faherty’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Monroe v. Pape · Butz v. Economou
Most-quoted passages
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“Monell itself suggests the continued vitality of the holding in Kostka : ‘Rather than constitutionalize a cause of action against local government that Congress intended to create in 1871, the better course is to confess error and set the record straight, as the Court does today’, 436 U.S. at 713 , 98 S.Ct. at 2047 . (Powell, J., concurring.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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