Bell v. Georgia Dental Association

HOOPER, Chief Judge.

Defendants, The Georgia Dental Association and The Northern District Dental Society (together with their Presidents, also joined herein) have filed a motion to dismiss the above action based primarily upon the contention that they constitute voluntary associations of professional men whose acts herein complained of are not acts under color of law as contemplated by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Consti tution and the Civil Rights Statute passed pursuant thereto.

Plaintiffs contend that said defendants are under the law acting as agencies of the State of…