Hawkins v. Deboo

How courts have described this case

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• affirming dismissal of conspiracy claim where the plaintiff “summarily allege[d] that the police reports involved false allegations, but never identifie[d] them”
• affirming district court’s ruling that the plaintiff had failed to state a claim under Section 1983 because the defendant was a private citizen
• underscoring Seventh Circuit’s consistent holdings that furnishing information to law enforcement officers does not constitute joint activity even in an unconstitutional arrest case
• “a private citizen can act under color of law if there is evidence of a concerted effort between a state actor and that individual”
• “[T]he mere act of furnishing information to law enforcement officers does not constitute joint activity in an unconstitutional arrest. . . . [And] the mere act of filing false police reports is not actionable under § 1983.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).