Paducah Cooperage Co. v. Commonwealth

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• to state a § 1983 conspiracy claim, plaintiff, must establish, in part, “a deprivation of civil rights in furtherance of the conspiracy by a party to the conspiracy.”
• “In order to state a claim for conspiracy under section 1983, ‘a plaintiff must establish (1) the existence of a conspiracy involving state action; and (2
• “Probable cause for a § 1983 unlawful arrest claim is . . . established by guilty plea or conviction, although not where the conviction is later overturned.”
• “It is not enough that the end result of the parties' independent conduct caused plaintiff harm or even that the alleged perpetrators of the harm acted in conscious parallelism.” (citations and quotations omitted)
• “Specific allegations of an agreement to carry out the alleged chain of events is essential in stating a claim for conspiracy.” (citing Spencer v. Steinman, 968 F. Supp. 1011, 1020 (E.D. Pa. 1997))
• “As Plaintiff pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol, a finding that he was searched or arrested without probable cause, which would likely result in the suppression of his blood alcohol level, would necessarily imply the invalidity of the conviction.”

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