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the policy discretion to determine how best to enforce the statute it has been explicitly authorized to implement.
Gonzaga emphasizes the centrality of congressional intent in the context of § 1983 and therefore casts doubt on the ability for regulations to establish a right enforceable through § 1983.
In the circuits that rejected the ability of regulations to create enforceable cannot be used to enforce regulations); Smith v. Kirk, 821 F.2d 980 (4th. Cir. 1987) (same).
260. Sandoval, 532 U.S. at 291.
261. See Sandoval, 532 U.S. at 286–89.
262. Id. at 288 (“We therefore begin (and find that we can end) our search for Congress’s intent with the text and structure of Title VI. . . . It is immediately clear that the “rights-creating” language . . . is completely absent.”).
264. Id. (“Language in a regulation may invoke a private right of action that Congress through statutory text created, but it may not create a right that Congress has not . . . [ I]t is most certainly incorrect to say that language in a regulation can conjure up a private cause of action that has not been authorized by Congress. Agencies may play the sorcerer’s apprentice but not the sorcerer himself.”).
265. Sandoval, 532 U.S. at 291.
266. Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273, 283 (2002); see also Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U.S. 275, 285 (2001) (“ A court’s role in discerning whether personal rights exist in the § 1983 context should therefore not differ from its role in discerning whether personal rights exist in the implied right of action context.”).

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