Garland's Digest

on employment discrimination law

Chapter 17 - 42 U.S.C. § 1983

Overview

17.100 42 U.S.C. § 1983 - General principles

17.200 Proving liability against individual capacity defendants

17.300 Proving liability against governmental entity or official
             capacity defendants

17.400 First Amendment claims

17.500 Fifth Amendment claims

17.600 Fourteenth Amendment claims - Equal Protection Clause

17.700 "BIVENS" CLAIMS

17.800 Defenses

17.900 Miscellaneous issues

 

Detail

17.100 42 U.S.C. § 1983 - General principles

             17.110 Statute

                          17.111 42 U.S.C. § 1983 contains no substantive rights

             17.120 How to determine if a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 remedy exists

             17.130 Claim against a state actor must be brought under 42 U.S.C.
                          § 1983

                          17.131 Standard of review re "state actor" determination

                          17.132 Whether "state actor" determination is a question of
                                       law or fact?

                          17.133 Determination of who is a state actor

                                       17.133.10 Private person can be state actor
                                                          (42 U.S.C. § 1983)

                                       17.133.20 Private person can be federal actor
                                                          (Bivens claim)

             17.140 Difference between "individual capacity" and "official
                          capacity"

                          17.141 Individual capacity

                          17.142 Official capacity

             17.150 [Reserved]

             17.160 Interaction between constitutional claims and employment
                          discrimination laws

                          17.161 Plaintiff may assert Title VII and Section 1983 claims
                                        together

                                       17.161.10 Plaintiff may assert Section 1983 claim
                                                          alone

                                       17.161.20 Plaintiff may not assert Title VII action
                                                          under Section 1983

                          17.162 Same analysis applies to Title VII and Section 1983
                                       claims

                                       17.162.10 Same analysis may not apply to affirmative
                                                          action plans

                                       17.162.20 Employer's conduct may not violate Equal
                                                          Protection Clause, but may violate Title VII

                          17.163 Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1981 action must be brought
                                       under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?

                          17.164 ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims may not be brought
                                       under 42 U.S.C. § 1983

                          17.165 No liability for retaliatory conduct under 42 U.S.C. §
                                       1983

             17.170 No respondeat superior liability

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17.200 Proving liability against individual capacity defendants

             17.210 Individuals cannot be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for
                          violations of most anti-discrimination laws

                          17.211 ADA

                          17.212 ADEA

                          17.213 Equal Pay Act

                          17.214 42 U.S.C. § 1981

                          17.215 FMLA

                          17.216 Rehabilitation Act

                          17.217 Title VII

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17.300 Proving liability against governmental entity or official
             capacity defendants

             17.310 Method of establishing liability

                          17.311 What constitutes a custom?

                          17.312 What constitutes a policy?

                          17.313 Who is a final policymaker?

             17.320 Liability of entity for actions of elected official over which
                          entity has no control

             17.330 Supervisory liability            

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17.400 First Amendment claims

             17.410 Matter of public concern

                          17.411 Speech regarding employee's own discrimination
                                       claim

                          17.412 Speech regarding the fact that a co-worker was being
                                       subjected to discrimination or harassment

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17.500 Fifth Amendment claims

             17.510 Age discrimination

                          17.511 ADEA preemption

                                       17.511.10 Federal employee

                                       17.511.20 Non-federal employee

             17.520 Gender discrimination

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17.600 Fourteenth Amendment claims - Equal Protection Clause

             17.610 Proving Equal Protection Clause violation

                          17.611 Whether strict scrutiny or rational basis test applies

                          17.612 Strict scrutiny defined

                          17.613 Rational basis scrutiny defined

             17.620 Age discrimination

                          17.621 Rational basis scrutiny applies

                          17.622 Mandatory retirement

                                       17.622.10 Judges

             17.630 Disability discrimination

                          17.631 Rational basis scrutiny applies

             17.640 Race discrimination

                          17.641 Affirmative action claims

             17.650 Sex discrimination

                          17.651 Sex plus or gender plus discrimination

                          17.652 Gender stereotyping

                                        17.652.10 Proving gender
                                                        stereotyping                  

                          17.653 Sexual harassment

                          17.654 Sexual orientation discrimination

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17.700 "BIVENS" CLAIMS

             17.710 What is a "Bivens" claim?

             17.720 Statute of limitations?

             17.730 [Reserved]

             17.740 [Reserved]

             17.750 [Reserved]

             17.760 [Reserved]

             17.770 [Reserved]

             17.780 [Reserved]

             17.790 Miscellaneous issues

                          17.791 Bivens claim cannot be brought by Postal Service
                                       employee arising out of employment relationship

                          17.792 District court has no duty to convert 42 U.S.C. § 1983
                                       action into a Bivens action

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17.800 Defenses

             17.810 "Same decision" defense

             17.820 Lack of standing if plaintiff would not have been hired or
                          promoted even if impermissible motive had not been
                          considered

             17.830 Qualified immunity

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17.900 Miscellaneous issues

             17.910 Definition of adverse employment action

             17.920 Decision of one Board member may not be imputed to other
                          Board members who voted the same way            

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