William Hutcherson, Jr. v. Ronald Smith

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• declining to hold that any attorney retained by a municipality automatically satisfied the “under color of law” requirement
• “[I]t is a well‐established principle of law that there is, in general, no constitutional or statutory right to effective assistance of counsel in civil cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).