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Re: Ashcroft named as top defendant in civil suit
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 22 Sep 2002 17:58:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/09/13/awadallah.suit/index.html
I am going to guess that this is being pursued under the following federal
statute:
TITLE 42, CHAPTER 21, SUBCHAPTER I, Sec. 1983.
Sec. 1983. - Civil action for deprivation of rights
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom,
or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects,
or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person
within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights,
privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be
liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other
proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a
judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial
capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree
was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this
section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of
Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia
-- Hop-Frog
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