Legal Opinion
Jacobs v. Huie
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided April 27, 1976No. Civ. A. No. CA-3-75-0345-GPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.
Penny Jacobs1 has brought this suit against her former landlord seeking damages and a judicial determination that a statute of the State of Texas is constitutionally infirm. The case turns on the presence or absence of state action, a principle doomed to conceptual adolescence operating as it does, as an adjusting screw between state-federal sovereignties.
In November, 1974, Penny Jacobs executed a form lease for a one-bedroom, unfurnished apartment, at a monthly rental of $175.00 per month — one of over 300 units in an apartment…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- United States v. ClassicSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Mitchell v. W. T. Grant Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Moose Lodge No. 107 v. IrvisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Reitman v. MulkeySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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