Brown v. Dorsey

How courts have described this case

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• “The sheriff alone has the power to hire and fire his deputies and jailors.”
• To state a claim under 42 USC § 1983 , a plaintiff \must show a deprivation of a federal right by a person acting under color of state law.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).