WHIPPLER

v.

GEORGIA

Citator

Cited By

• Whippler v. Balkcom, 342 F.2d 388 (5th Cir. 1965)
  …ior Court of Bibb County, Georgia, sentenced Whippier to death by electrocution. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed. Whippler v. State, 1962, 218 Ga. 198, 126 S.E. 2d 744. The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari. Whippler v. Georgia, 1963, 375 U.S. 960, 84 S.Ct. 446, 11 L.Ed.2d 318. May 13, 1964, Whippier applied for federal habeas corpus. The district court, without holding an evi-dentiary hearing, dismissed the petition on the ground that Whippier, by not applying for state habeas corpus, had fa…
• Hill v. McCLELLAN, 490 F.2d 859 (5th Cir. 1974)
  …ol- or of state law within the meaning of the Federal Civil Rights Acts; likewise, they are not liable under said Acts. Skolnick v. Martin, 7 Cir., 1963, 317 F. 2d 855, 856, cert, denied, 375 U.S. 908, 84 S.Ct. 199, 11 L.Ed.2d 146, rehearing denied, 375 U.S. 960, 84 S.Ct. 440, 11 L.Ed.2d 319; Carmack v. Gibson, supra; Brown v. Dunne, 7 Cir., 1969, 409 F. 2d 341; Hanna v. Home Insurance Co., supra. A private person cannot be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 unless his wrongful action was done under color…
• Jones v. Jones, 410 F.2d 365 (7th Cir. 1969)
  …yers are considered “officers of the court,” they are not officers of the state within the meaning of the Civil Rights Act. See Skolnick v. Spolar, 317 F. 2d 857 (7th Cir. 1963), cert. denied, 375 U.S. 904, 84 S.Ct. 195, 11 L.Ed.2d 145, reh. denied, 375 U.S. 960, 84 S.Ct. 439, 11 L.Ed.2d 318; Skolnick v. Martin, 317 F. 2d 855 (7th Cir. 1963) ; Meier v. State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co., 356 F. 2d 504 (7th Cir. 1966), cert. denied, 385 U.S. 875, 87 S.Ct. 151, 17 L.Ed.2d 102, and United States v. Price, 383 U.S…