Congress acted similarly under President Ulysses S. Grant, suspending habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina under the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

Congress could, in theory, do something. A trio of Democrats last year reintroduced the Bivens Act, which would insert federal officials acting under color of law into the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

The path to lawsuits of this kind is through one of the country’s oldest and most important civil rights laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, referred to in its modern codification as Section 1983.

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 [which enacted §1983 among other landmark provisions] was an exercise in grand am­bition. It had to be.

The Trump administration formally accused Harvard on Monday of violating federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment, citing a series of antisemitic ...

What it means Their case rested on Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, which they claimed allowed private parties to sue government actors who violate their rights under federal law.

When assessing whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which was first enacted as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, can be used to enforce Medicaid’s free choice of provider requirement, the Court ...

They used what’s known as Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 to challenge state actions in federal court.

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centers on whether low-income Medicaid patients can sue under what is known as Section 1983 – part of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 – in order to choose their ...

The conservative majority paved the way for Republican-led states to defund the health care provider. But Clarence Thomas hinted at harsher civil rights disruptions to come.