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eBook details
- Title: County Of Adams V. Hibbard
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 17, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
Description
The Supreme Court in Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167, 187, 5 L. Ed. 2d 492, 81 S. Ct. 473 (1961), held that 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) must be "read against the background . . . that makes a [person] responsible for the natural consequences of his [or her] actions." Today, thirty years hence, we must decide whether a county or county officials may be held accountable under § 1983 for conduct that is designed to cause the outright destruction of a citizen's property. On the record before us, we conclude that the intentional misconduct of county officials causing the destruction of private property is a species of tort within the reach of § 1983 and we hold that government officials may be held personally accountable for their unauthorized and deliberate misbehavior under that Congressional enactment.
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