Christopher I. Simmons v. Sacramento County Superior Court Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and R. Duane Skelton

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• explaining that “conclusory allegations” are insufficient to 2 19-55893 state a conspiracy claim under § 1983
• explaining that “[a] judge is absolutely immune for judicial acts”
• “Plaintiff cannot state a claim under § 1983 against the judge who entered the 5 default, because the judge is absolutely immune for judicial acts.”
• “Plaintiff cannot state a claim against the Sacramento County Superior Court . . . because 15 such suits are barred by the Eleventh Amendment”
• a restriction on a pretrial detainee amounts to impermissible punishment if it is not reasonably related to a legitimate governmental objective
• “conclusory allegations that the lawyer was conspiring with state officers” were insufficient to establish lawyer in private practice was acting under color of 28 state law

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