Vega v. Tekoh

Vega v. Tekoh
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 20, 2022 Decided June 23, 2022
Full case name	Carlos Vega v. Terence Tekoh
Docket no.	21-499
Citations	597 U.S. ___ (more) 2022 WL 2251304; 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3053
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Holding
A Miranda violation does not provide a basis for a Section 1983 claim.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
Dissent	Kagan, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V

Vega v. Tekoh, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held, 6–3, that an officer's failure to read Miranda warnings to a suspect in custody does not alone provide basis for a claim of civil liability under Section 1983 of United States Code. In the case, the Court reviewed its previous holding of Miranda v. Arizona (1966) to determine whether respondent Carlos Vega violated plaintiff Terence Tekoh's constitutional rights by failing to read Tekoh his Miranda rights prior to interrogation. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the six-justice majority that Tekoh's Fifth Amendment rights were not violated, as Miranda rights are "not themselves rights protected by the Constitution."