Clay L. Shaw v. Jim Garrison

How courts have described this case

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• noting that this is “not an attempt to sue under the civil rights statutes for deprivation of another’s constitutional rights” and that “[s]uch suits are impermissible.”
• examining Louisiana law on the survivability of an action following plaintiff’s death in § 1983 action
• § 1983 claim survives plaintiff's death after suit was brought even though it would abate under applicable state law
• § 1983 claim survives plaintiff’s death after suit was brought even though it would abate under applicable state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).