Pleasant v. Caraway

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a private individual complainant in a criminal prosecution does not act under color of law, even ifthe police relied upon the individual’s sworn complaint in arresting and charging the plaintiff
• finding that “[a] private individual complainant in a criminal prosecution does not act under color of law,” even if the police relied upon the individual’s sworn complaint in arresting and charging the plaintiff
• affirming dismissal of § 1983 claim because allegation that defendant made false statement in affidavit to police did not qualify defendant as state actor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).