Mr. Justice Blackmun, with whom Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice White join, dissenting. It is disturbing to see the Court, in this decision, although almost apologetically self-described as “a narrow one,” ante, at 594, cut back on what is acknowledged, ante, at 590, to be the “broad sweep” of 42 U. S. C. § 1983 . Accordingly, I…
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