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Title

A Section 1983 civil rights anthology / edited with comments by Sheldon H. Nahmod.

Publication

[Cincinnati, Ohio] : Anderson Pub. Co., c1993.

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Additional Authors

Nahmod, Sheldon H., 1940-

Description

ix, 303 p.; 26 cm.

Subject

State action (Civil rights) > United States

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. I. Interpreting Section 1983 : its history and purposes -- Constitutional tort : Monroe v. Pape, and the frontiers beyond / Marshall S. Shapiro -- Section 1983 and the "background" of tort liability / Sheldon H. Nahmod -- "Under color of" what law : a reconstructed model of Section 1983 / Eric H. Zagrans -- pt. II. "Every person" : theories of local government liability -- Government responsibility for constitutional torts / Christina B. Whitman -- Municipal liability under Section 1983 : some lessons from tort law and organization theory / Peter H. Schuck -- "Or causes to be subjected" : the role of causation in Section 1983 municipal liability analysis / Barbara Kritchevsky -- pt. III. "Every person" : theories of individual immunity -- Personal immunities under Section 1983 : the limits of the Court's historical analysis / Richard A. Matasar -- Damage suits against public officers / Ronald A. Cass --^
• pt. IV. "Secured by the Constitution" : the Fourteenth Amendment and due process -- Comment, state law wrongs, state law remedies, and the Fourteenth Amendment / Henry Paul Monaghan -- Substantive due process and the scope of constitutional torts / Michael Wells and Thomas A. Eaton -- pt. V. "Secured by the ... laws" : federal statutory violations -- Federal statutory review under Section 1983 and the APA / Henry Paul Monaghan -- pt. VI. "Shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law" : corrective justice and damages -- Damages for constitutional violations : the relation of risk to injury in constitutional torts / John C. Jeffries -- Constitutional damages and corrective justice : a different view / Sheldon H. Nahmod -- Note, damage awards for constitutional torts : a reconsideration after Carey v. Piphus -- pt. VII. "Shall be liable to the party injured in ... [a] suit in equity" : federalism and public law litigation --^
• Of justiciability, remedies, and public law litigation : notes on the jurisprudence of Lyons / Richard H. Fallon, Jr. -- Federalism, state courts, and Section 1983 / Gene R. Nichol, Jr. -- pt. VIII. Federalism, Section 1988 and the relationship between federal and state law -- State law in federal civil rights cases : the proper scope of Section 1988 / Theodore Eisenberg -- The source of law in civil rights cases : some old light on Section 1988 / Seth F. Kreimer -- Wrongful death actions and Section 1983 / Steven H. Steinglass -- pt. IX. Federalism, state courts, parity and "converse-Erie" -- The myth of parity / Burt Neuborne -- Beyond parity : Section 1983 and the state courts / Susan N. Herman -- Note, Clarifying comity : state court jurisdiction and Section 1983 state tax challenges -- pt. X. Critical perspectives -- A critical approach to Section 1983 with special attention to sources of law / Jack M. Beermann --^
• Section 1983 discourse : the move form Constitution to tort / Sheldon H. Nahmod -- pt. XI. Alternative dispute resolution and release-dismissal agreements : an empirical perspective -- Releases, redress, and police misconduct : reflections on agreements to waive civil rights actions in exchange for dismissal of criminal charges / Seth F. Kraimer.

ISBN

0870841351

LCCN

^^^93019309^

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Harvard Library