What is the test for asserting Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act?
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The following excerpt is from Crawley v. McRae, Case No. 1:13-CV-02042-LJO-SAB (E.D. Cal. 2015):
Section 1983 provides a cause of action for the deprivation of "rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States" by a person acting "under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage." Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 639 (1980). To succeed in asserting the Section 1983 claims, Plaintiffs must demonstrate that the action
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