rejecting state action theory despite extensive government involvement in private entity because plaintiff failed to adduce evidence that government actually played a role in his termination
How later courts described this case
- rejecting state action theory despite extensive government involvement in private entity because plaintiff failed to adduce evidence that government actually played a role in his termination
- holding that Conrail is not an entity of the federal government for purposes of the due process clause
- constitutional limitations do not apply to the activities of Conrail in discharging an individual employee
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
MESKILL, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result reached and in all of Chief Judge Feinberg’s reasoning with the exception of the last two paragraphs of section II, which I believe to be a dispensable combination of dicta and advisory opinion.