Legal Opinion
Powe v. Miles
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 23, 1968No. 217, Docket 32833PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from the dismissal of a complaint under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, by students at Alfred University, some of them in the New York State College of Ceramics, demands analysis of the elusive concept of “state action,” recently characterized as “the most important problem in American law.” Black, “State Action,” Equal Protection, and California’s Proposition 14, 81 Harv.L.Rev. 69 (1967). It requires us to consider this in the context not of racial discrimination, to which Profes*75sor Black limited his discussion, id., at 70, but of First Amendment…
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3Cited by151 opinions
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