The following excerpt is from Garland v. Cate, No. 2:12-cv-3095 AC P (E.D. Cal. 2013):
42 U.S.C. 1983. The statute requires that there be an actual connection or link between the actions of the defendants and the deprivation alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff. See, e.g., Starr v. Baca, 652 F.3d 1202, 1205-06 (9th Cir. 2011). "A person 'subjects' another to the deprivation of a constitutional right, within the meaning of 1983, if he does an affirmative act, participates in another's affirmative acts or omits to perform an act which he is legally required
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