He also believed that with power came accountability, filing a strong dissent from a 1982 decision that gave presidents absolute immunity from suits for damages for their official actions.
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A Reconstruction-era federal law, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, permits suits for damages in federal court against those who violate federally guaranteed statutory or constitutional rights.
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A different group of lawyers has represented classes of smokers directly, including flight attendants who brought a successful Florida suit for damages based on harm from second-hand smoke.
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Shumlin filed a $ 250, 000 suit for damages, but in February 1936 a Federal judge refused to prevent the city from interfering in the presentation of the play.
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Brown, a former financial officer for a small contracting firm, said Thursday that he planned to file a civil suit for damages incurred because of the conduct of federal agents.
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The attorney for Kevin Harris pressed Harris's civil suit for damages, although federal officials vowed they would never pay someone who had killed a U . S . Marshal.
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve an important and long-standing dispute over how to assess police officers'liability in suits for damages over the use of excessive force.
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That law, usually called Section 1983, authorizes suits for damages for the deprivation of " any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws ."
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A tabloid newspaper's lawyer said on Wednesday that Naomi Campbell had lied on " a grandiose scale " in her High Court suit for damages in a privacy action.
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In 1951, Shaw lost a suit for damages he filed against Paul R . Ritter, a former business partner, concerning an oil lease in the Cuyama Valley in Kern County.
