Can a person deprive another of a constitutional right by setting in motion an act that would cause others to inflict the injury?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sims v. Lizarraga, No. 2:16-cv-0204 AC P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
A person can deprive another of a constitutional right within the meaning of 1983 "not only by some kind of direct personal participation in the deprivation, but also by setting in motion a series of acts by others which the actor knows or reasonably should know would cause others to inflict the constitutional injury." Johnson v. Duffy, 588 F.2d 740, 743-44 (9th Cir. 1978).
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