Investors Thrift Corp. v. Hunt

How courts have described this case

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• holding sheriff could be liable for his omission to perform duties imposed by state law that deprived the plaintiff of his property without due process
• noting that to 11 establish a deprivation of a constitutional right by any particular individual, plaintiff must 12 allege that the individual, in acting or failing to act, was the actual and proximate cause of 13 his injury
• stating that a person subjects another to the deprivation of a constitutional right if he does an act, participates in another’s act, or omits to perform an act he is legally required to do that causes the alleged deprivation
• stating that a person subjects another to the 8 deprivation of a constitutional right if he does an act, participates in another’s act, or omits to 9 perform an act he is legally required to do that causes the alleged deprivation
• stating that a person subjects another to the 11 deprivation of a constitutional right if he does an act, participates in another’s act, or omits to 12 perform an act he is legally required to do that causes the alleged deprivation
• stating that a person subjects another to the 14 deprivation of a constitutional right if he does an act, participates in another’s act, or omits to 15 perform an act he is legally required to do that causes the alleged deprivation

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