Samuel v. Michaud

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• both elements must be present to hold federal defendants liable under either Bivens or section 1983
• federal clerks responsible for transcribing proceedings may be protected by qualified immunity
• “The district court lacks subject matter 17 jurisdiction either to conduct a direct review of a state court judgment or to scrutinize the state 18 court’s application of various rules and procedures pertaining to the state case.”
• “A person deprives another of a constitutional right, within the meaning of Bivens, if he does an affirmative act, participates in another’s affirmative acts, or omits to perform an act which he is legally required to do that causes the deprivation complained of’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).