Description
Selected by Stephen Yagman, these jury instructions form an outline of the law in Section 1983 actions, to charge a jury, and in closing argument. Setting out the factual and legal elements required, the instructions are supported by specific authority cases, practice commentary, and forms. Discusses Fourth Amendment cases, such as stops, arrests, searches, seizures, force, baseless prosecutions, Eight and Fourteen Amendment prisoner cases. Fourteenth Amendment cases, including due process, equal protection, employment; government and supervisor liability, defenses, consent and qualified immunity, general instructions, introductory and general, conspiracy, and color of law instructions, principles and practice; evidence, damages, and causation.
Features
- Allows fast, easy, and on-point research
- Contains the jury instruction language, saving time in drafting and customizing instructions
- Examines the factual and legal elements required to prove and defend Section 1983 actions
- Includes a convenient forms diskette
- Provides a practice commentary, indicating the practical context of each instruction
- Supported by specific authority cases from which the instruction language was drawn