# Joel Myron v. Consolidated Rail Corporation

> Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · January 8, 1985 · 752 F.2d 50

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9473012

## Case

- **Full name:** Joel MYRON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- **Decided:** January 8, 1985
- **Citations:** 752 F.2d 50; 118 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2271; 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 28634
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Meskill
- **Judges:** Feinberg, Mansfield, Meskill
- **Cited by:** 23 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9473012

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

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.

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