Is there a federal finding that a person acting under the color of state law committed a civil rights violation?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Trujillo v. Nofsinger, No. 2:16-cv-1456 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2018):
violation was committed by a person acting under the color of state law. See West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42, 48 (1988); Ketchum v. Alameda Cnty., 811 F.2d 1243, 1245 (9th Cir. 1987).
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