Claude Grow v. Thomas G. Fisher, Individually and in His Capacity as Prosecuting Attorney for the 30th Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a § 1983 conspiracy claim cannot rely on allegations against an immune co-coconspirator to meet the state action requirement
• affirmed dismissal of complaint because no allegation that private defendant conspired with state officials in prior criminal actions
• a private citizen does not become a state actor simply by reporting a crime which police reply on to make an arrest
• “[T]he . . . complainants and witnesses in [an] action which itself was prosecuted under color of law [were still] private persons not acting under color of law.”
• “[T]he . . . complainants and witnesses in [an] action which itself was prosecuted under color of law [were still] private persons not acting under color of law.”
• criticizing the lack of any rationale for the proposition

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