Lawrence v. City of St. Paul

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• considering plaintiffs criminal complaint, state-court judge’s finding of probable cause, transcript of the plaintiff's plea hearing, judgment, and register of actions in plaintiff's criminal case in the motion to dismiss
• holding Heck is not jurisdictional
• “A private party does not conspire with government actors for purposes of § 1983 merely by invoking an exercise of the state official’s authority.”
• “When a victim of a crime reports that crime to a police officer, she is exercising her First Amendment right to petition the government for the redress of grievances.”
• “When a victim of a crime reports that crime to a police officer, she is exercising her First Amendment right to petition the government for the redress of grievances.”
• “even if police defendants knowingly inserted false information in their reports, [plaintiff] was not deprived of a constitutional protected interest because of that false information, and thus she was not deprived of substantive due process.”

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