42 U.S.C. § 1983
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From 373 U.S. 668 - McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · 1963Most cited · 2,257 citing opinions
The purposes were severalfold—to override certain kinds of state laws, to provide a remedy where state law was inadequate, 'to provide a federal remedy where the state remedy, though adequate in theory, was not available in practice,' and to provide a remedy in the federal courts supplementary to any remedy any State might have.