by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress. The essence of the plaintiffs’ claim is that Congress gave them certain rights and privileges under the IDEA, specifically procedural due process rights to ensure a free appropriate public education for children with disabilities, and the defendants intentionally deprived them of those rights and privileges, resulting in two types of compensatory damages— emotional distress damages and other money damages resulting from the denial to Heidi of a free appropriate public education. While the source of these rights is the IDEA, the remedy claimed for the deprivation of these rights is §1983, not the IDEA. See, Maine v. Thiboutot, 448 U.S. 1 (1980) (<HOLDING>). The plaintiffs framed the complaint in this
holding that  1983 applies to violations of any federal statute not just equal rights legislation holding that 1983 authorizes suits to redress violations by state officials of rights created by federal statutes as well as the federal constitution recognizing state laws can be preempted by federal regulations as well as by federal legislation holding that because  1983 by its plain text broadly encompasses violations of federal statutory  as well as constitutional law plaintiffs could bring suit for violation of social security act recognizing cause of action against federal officials for violation of constitutional rights