Winegar v. Buchkoe

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• allowing certification under § 2679(d)(1) after the employee “removed the action pursuant to other provisions of the United States Code”
• “[P]rivate parties acting in a conspiracy with a state official to deprive others of constitutional rights are also acting ‘under color’ of state law.”
• “In determining whether plaintiffs sued Hafer in her personal capacity, official capacity, or both, we first look to the complaints and the course of proceedings.”
• “It does not follow that every time a public official acts under color of state law, the suit must of necessity be one against the official in his or her official 6 capacity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).