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Sixth Circuit· 3/18/1987

Nishiyama v. Dickson County

Citations

  • 814 F.2d 277
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 3568

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that where the state actors had, by established practice, facilitated the deprivation of individual’s constitutional rights by providing the third party with specific means and opportunity to commit the crime against the individual, liability would result under § 1983
  • finding state action where officers \by their acts facilitate the crime by providing the criminal with the specific opportunity to commit the crime....\
  • distinguishing the more limited risk created by a trustee as opposed to a parolee, in which \the identity of potential victims was difficult to define.\
  • finding state action where officers “by their acts facilitate the crime by providing the criminal with the specific opportunity to commit the crime_”
  • distinguishing the more limited risk created by a trustee as opposed to a parolee, in which \the identity of potential victims was difficult to define.\
  • distinguishing the more limited risk created by a trustee as opposed to a parolee, in which “the identity of potential victims was difficult to define.”

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