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JEFFERSON v. CITY OF TARRANT

No. 96-957.

520 U.S. 1154 (1997)

JEFFERSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF JEFFERSON, DECEASED, ET AL. v. CITY OF TARRANT, ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 31, 1997.

Certiorari granted limited to the following question: "Whether, when a decedent's death is alleged to have resulted from a deprivation of federal rights occurring in Alabama, the Alabama Wrongful Death Act, Ala. Code §6-5-410 (1993), governs the recovery by the representative of the decedent's estate under 42 U. S. C...

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