State of Iowa v. Brandon Pezhin Lamere

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Dictionary Act “supplied[s] rules of construction for all legislation”
• explaining that § 1983 “was enacted for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment” following “a wave of murders and assaults ... against both blacks and Union sympathizers” that the Ku Klux Klan committed (citations omitted
• explaining that § 1983 “was enacted for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment” following “a wave of murders and assaults ... against both blacks and Union sympathizers” that the Ku Klux Klan committed (citations omitted)(internal quotations omitted)
• resorting to legislative history only after determining that the statutory language was unclear
• resorting to legislative history only after determining that the statutory language was unclear
• “[Neither the Territory of the Virgin Islands nor its officers acting in their official capacities are ‘persons’ under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).