Bobby Joe Lewellen v. The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee and the Metropolitan Board of Public Education

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• noting that “[g]ross negligence is not actionable under § 1983”
• “Unless a deprivation of some federal constitutional or statutory right has occurred, § 1983 provides no redress . . .”
• “[I]t is now firmly settled that injury caused by negligence does not constitute a ‘deprivation’ of any constitutionally protected interest”
• “Unless a deprivation of some federal constitutional or statutory right has occurred, § 1983 provides no redress . . .”
• “Unless a deprivation of some federal constitutional or statutory right has occurred, § 1983 provides no redress even if the plaintiff’s common law rights have been violated and even if the remedies available under state law are inadequate.”
• “Unless a deprivation of some federal constitutional or statutory right has occurred, § 1983 provides no redress even if the plaintiff’s common law rights have been violated and even if the remedies available under state law are inadequate”

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