Derry Sykes v. John James, New York State Parole Officer

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that 42 U.S.C. § 1983 “itself creates no substantive rights[,] [because] it provides only a procedure for redress for the deprivation of rights established elsewhere.”
• “Section 1983 itself creates no substantive rights; it provides only a procedure for redress for the deprivation of rights established elsewhere.”
• “Section 1983 provides a civil claim for damages against any person who, acting under color of state law, deprives another of a right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution or the laws of the United States.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).