MCDANIEL

v.

HEINZE, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Landrigan v. City OF Warwick, 628 F.2d 736 (1st Cir. 1980)
  …wful actions of the defendants.” A number of courts have stated that the federal constitution does not secure a person against unfounded or malicious claims or suits in a state court. See Curry v. Ragan, 257 F. 2d 449, 450 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 358 U.S. 851, 79 S.Ct. 78, 3 L.Ed.2d 85 (1958); see also Paskaly v. Seale, 506 F. 2d 1209,1212-13 (9th Cir. 1974) (malicious prosecution without more does not constitute a civil rights violation); United States ex rel. Rauch v. Deutsch, 456 F. 2d 1301 (3d Cir. 1…
• Cloutier v. The Town OF Epping, 714 F.2d 1184 (1st Cir. 1983)
  …cially so when the laws of the state are available and furnished adequate remedies to a person aggrieved.’’ Beker Phosphate Corp. v. Muirhead, 581 F. 2d 1187, 1189 (5th Cir.1978), quoting Curry v. Ragan, 257 F. 2d 449, 450 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 358 U.S. 851, 79 S.Ct. 78, 3 L.Ed.2d 85 (1958). See also Cline v. Brusett, 661 F. 2d 108, 112 (9th Cir.1981). Here, plaintiffs made no effort to seek state remedies for the alleged abuse of process. Compare Roy v. City of Augusta, 712 F. 2d 1517, at 1524. Moreo…
• Beker Phosphate Corp. v. Muirhead, 581 F.2d 1187 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …nder color of state law.8 More specifically the common law tort of misuse of legal procedure, without more, does not rise to the level of Constitutional wrong remedied by Section 1983. In Curry v. Ragan, 257 F. 2d 449, 450 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 358 U.S. 851, 79 S.Ct. 78, 3 L.Ed.2d 85 (1958), this Court held, inter alia: Neither the Fourteenth Amendment nor the Civil Rights Acts purported to secure a person against unfounded or even malicious claims or suits in state courts, especially so when the laws…