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• The Court also held that a merely negligent deprivation of property under color of state law was actionable under 42 U . S . C . ?1983.
• The Court found that although the respondent was deprived of property under color of state law, he had not sufficiently alleged a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• On the merits, to establish personal liability in a ?1983 action, it is enough to show that the official, acting under color of state law, caused the deprivation of a federal right.
• Relying on Haldane v . Chagnon, 345 F . 2d 601 ( CA9 1965 ), the District Court also ruled that, with the dismissal of the judge, the remaining defendants could not be said to have conspired under color of state law within the meaning of ?1983.
• The first is a claim under 42 U . S . C . Section 1983 in which plaintiff alleges that Governor Clinton, acting under color of state law, deprived her of her constitutional right to equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution by sexually harassing her.
• In a brief urging the justices not to hear the appeal, Malesko's lawyers told the court : " The privatization of core government activities _ such as law enforcement _ may save the government money, but should not erode constitutional protections against those acting under color of state law . " ( MORE ) nn
• On February 24, 1965, however, Federal Judge William Harold Cox, an ardent segregationist, threw out the indictments against all conspirators other than Rainey and Price on the ground that the other seventeen were not acting " under color of state law . " In March, 1966, the United States Supreme Court overruled Cox and reinstated the indictments.
• Applying this precept, courts have found that intentional sexual harassment of employees by persons acting under color of state law violates the Fourteenth Amendment and is actionable under Section 1983 . A plaintiff wishing to sustain an equal protection claim of sexual harassment under the Fourteenth Amendment must show both " sexual harassment " and an " intent " to harass based upon that plaintiff's membership in a particular class of citizens _ i . e ., male or female.
• Although the President contends that plaintiff cannot establish that he acted under color of state law with the intent to discriminate against her on the basis of her gender, he states that he reserves those issues for trial, if necessary, and seeks summary judgment solely on the grounds of plaintiff's failure to prove that she was subjected to conduct that corresponds to sexual harassment under Title VII . Before discussing that issue, however, the Court must address plaintiff's argument that the essential elements of a sexual harassment claim under Section 1983 do not correspond to those under Title VII ( although she acknowledges there is some overlap ) and that her burden of proof is something less than that required under Title VII . The Court rejects this argument.