context: Some observations are made salient even on this limited record. Indisputably, TSI acted jointly with the deputy sheriff, a governmental employee, to divest plaintiffs of their interest in their home.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 457 U.S. 942, 942
citation_a.parenthetical: private party's joint participation with state officials in the seizure of property is sufficient to characterize that party as a "state actor" for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment
citation_a.sentence: See Lugar, 457 U.S. at 942 (private party’s joint participation with state officials in the seizure of property is sufficient to characterize that party as a “state actor” for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment); see also Kennedy v. Widdowson, 804 F.Supp. 737, 740 (D.Md.1992) (private defendant’s joint participation with police officers in removing property from plaintiffs’ home made him a state actor).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 804 F.Supp. 737, 740
citation_b.parenthetical: private defendant's joint participation with police officers in removing property from plaintiffs' home made him a state actor
citation_b.sentence: See Lugar, 457 U.S. at 942 (private party’s joint participation with state officials in the seizure of property is sufficient to characterize that party as a “state actor” for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment); see also Kennedy v. Widdowson, 804 F.Supp. 737, 740 (D.Md.1992) (private defendant’s joint participation with police officers in removing property from plaintiffs’ home made him a state actor).