42 > CHAPTER 21 > SUBCHAPTER I > § 1983 |
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§ 1983. Civil action for deprivation of rights |
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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. |
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TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 21 > SUBCHAPTER I > § 1985 |
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§ 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights |
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(1) Preventing
officer from performing duties If two or more persons in any State or
Territory conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person
from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the
United States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or to induce by like
means any officer of the United States to leave any State, district, or
place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to
injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of
the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof,
or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him
in the discharge of his official duties; (2) Obstructing
justice; intimidating party, witness, or juror If two or more persons in any State or
Territory conspire to deter, by force, intimidation, or threat, any party or
witness in any court of the United States from attending such court, or from
testifying to any matter pending therein, freely, fully, and truthfully, or
to injure such party or witness in his person or property on account of his
having so attended or testified, or to influence the verdict, presentment, or
indictment of any grand or petit juror in any such court, or to injure such
juror in his person or property on account of any verdict, presentment, or
indictment lawfully assented to by him, or of his being or having been such
juror; or if two or more persons conspire for the purpose of impeding,
hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner, the due course of
justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen the
equal protection of the laws, or to injure him or his property for lawfully
enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any person, or class of
persons, to the equal protection of the laws; (3) Depriving
persons of rights or privileges If two or more persons in any State or
Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of
another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any
person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal
privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or
hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving
or securing to all persons within such State or Territory the equal
protection of the laws; or if two or more persons conspire to prevent by
force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote,
from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of
the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or
Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure
any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy; in
any case of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more persons
engaged therein do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object
of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his person or property, or
deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the
United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the
recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one
or more of the conspirators. |
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