Mario Lavell Cockerham v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that § 1983 plaintiffs must “plead and prove” that state remedies are inadequate to redress the deprivation of property if they are to pursue remedy under federal law
• holding that “in § 1983 damage suits claiming the deprivation of a property interest without procedural due process of law, the plaintiff must plead and prove that state remedies for redressing the wrong are inadequate”
• holding that “in § 1983 damage suits claiming the deprivation of a property interest without procedural due process of law, the plaintiff must plead and prove that state remedies for redressing the wrong are inadequate”
• holding that “in § 1983 damage suits claiming the deprivation of a property interest without procedural due process of law, the plaintiff must plead and prove that state remedies for redressing the wrong are inadequate”
• holding that “in § 1983 damage suits claiming the deprivation of a property interest without procedural due process of law, the plaintiff must plead and prove that state remedies for redressing the wrong are inadequate”
• holding plaintiff bears burden of pleading and proving absence of state remedies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).