Farley v. Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is no private right of action under 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242
• holding that there is no private right of action under 18 U.S.C. § 242, a federal criminal statute
• “Nothing in the language or structure of sections 241 and 645 suggests that Congress intended to create a private right of action pursuant to those statutes.”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s claims under Sections 241 and 242, “which are federal criminal statutes,” because “crimes are prosecuted by the government, not by private parties”
• finding no private right of action under 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 or 242
• “[W]e have long recognized that crimes are prosecuted by the government, not by private parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).