Martinez-Rivera v. Sanchez Ramos

How courts have described this case

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• affirming a lower court’s dismissal of claims arising under the Fifth Amendment against defendants who were not alleged to be federal government actors
• affirming dismissal of Fifth Amendment claims because police officers are state actors and not federal actors
• describing the limited circumstances in which sua sponte dismissals under Rule 12(b)(6) are appropriate
• “[O]nce those identities are revealed, the plaintiff should act promptly to amend the complaint to substitute the correct parties and to dismiss any baseless claims.”
• “The Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, however, applies ‘only to actions of the federal government . . . .’”
• “The Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, however, applies ‘only to actions of the federal government—not to those of state or local governments.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).