O'CONNOR v. Several Unknown Correctional Officers

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• holding that an administratrix was entitled to pursue constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 through a wrongful-death action
• “Punitive damages are possible in an appropriate case under § 1983, however, where the defendants have acted with the malicious intention to deprive a person of his rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).