SCOTUS Case
Dodson v. Polk
Primary source
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Background
Dodson v. Polk — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.
How courts have described this case
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- “[A] lawyer 14 representing a client is not, by virtue of being an officer of the court, a state actor 15 ‘under color of state law’ within the meaning of § 1983.”
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