Identify and describe the differences between two kinds of state civil lawsuits against individual state officers
What will be an ideal response?
Plaintiffs can sue individual state officers in two types of cases: First, state tort
lawsuits, and second, federal U.S. Civil Rights Act lawsuits.
A state tort lawsuit is brought to recover monetary damages for injuries caused by
officials' civil wrongs against the plaintiff. Examples of such civil wrongs are assault,
false arrest, trespass, breaking and entering.
Federal U.S. Civil Rights lawsuits are brought under Title 42, Section 1983 of the Civil
Rights Act of 1871 . This allows plaintiffs to go into federal courts to sue state law
enforcement agencies and individual law enforcement officers for violating plaintiff's
federal constitutional rights.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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A. Fourth B. Fifth C. Sixth D. Eighth