Nahmod Law

The 2024-25 Edition of my three-volume Treatise on section 1983 will be available in early September on West and Westlaw. The Treatise, first published in 1979, has been updated annually, I am pleased to say.

In any event, I want to share the Author’s Note with you because it provides a current list of the Supreme Court’s cases related to section 1983 that were handed down in the 2023 Term or that will be decided in the forthcoming 2024 Term

I have discussed all of these cases on this blog (except for Rahimi, the Second Amendment case), so that you can search for them. Of course, they are all addressed in the 2024-25 Edition.

(Below is the Author’s Note)

Author’s Introduction to the 2024-2025 Edition

The Preface that follows discusses the purposes of the Treatise and summarizes the contents of each chapter, including references to important Supreme Court decisions dealing with § 1983. I encourage my readers, especially new users of the Treatise, to consult it.

This 2024-2025 Edition includes not only recent important circuit court and state court decisions, but all § 1983- related decisions of the Supreme Court that were handed down up to, and including, its 2023 Term.

Supreme Court Decisions in the 2023 Term

• Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier: state action and a public official’s social media account (see § 2:16)
• U.S. v. Rahimi: does the Second Amendment’s protection extend to a person subject to a domestic-violence court order? (see § 3:16)
• Gonzalez v. Trevino: First Amendment retaliatory arrests and objective evidence of impermissible motive (see § 3:13)
• City of Grants Pass v. Johnson: Eighth Amendment and the homeless (see § 3:28)
• Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon: Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution and the charge-specific rule (ss § 3:66)

Certiorari Granted for Decision in the 2024 Term

• Williams v. Washington: exhaustion of administrative remedies and state court § 1983 claims (see § 1:59 and § 9:61)
• Lackey v. Holcomb: preliminary injunctions, prevailing parties and attorney’s fees (see § 10:7)        

As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions. Please feel free to contact me directly: my email address is snahmod@kentlaw.edu.

Sheldon H. Nahmod

September, 2024