LOS ANGELES TIMES, A DIVISION OF TIMES MIRROR CO., ET AL.

v.

HARTLEY

Citator

Cited By

• Morast v. Lance, 807 F.2d 926 (11th Cir. 1987)
  …ic utility to conclude that the utility acted for the state. Id. at 351-52, 95 S.Ct. at 453-54; see also Sims v. Jefferson Downs, Inc., 611 F. 2d 609 (5th Cir.1980); Golden v. Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, 530 F. 2d 16 (5th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 872, 97 S.Ct. 186, 50 L.Ed.2d 152 (1976). The federal government played no part in the defendants’ decision to fire Morast. “[A] State normally can be held responsible for private decisions only when it has exercised coercive power or h|s provided such…
• Nat'l Broad. Co., Inc. v. Commc'ns Workers OF Am., AFL-CIO, 860 F.2d 1022 (11th Cir. 1988)
  …hospital to the therapist’s employer, a private corporation providing respiratory care at the hospital). Two cases binding on [*1026] us have reached the same conclusion. See Golden v. Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, 530 F. 2d 16 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 872, 97 S.Ct. 186, 50 L.Ed.2d 152 (1976) (no state action where private yacht club operated its docks on bay bottom land leased from the city for $1 per month); Greco v. Orange Memorial Hospital, 513 F. 2d 873 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1000, 96…
• Dobyns v. E-Systems, Inc., 667 F.2d 1219 (5th Cir. 1982)
  …t. See also Sims v. Jefferson Downs, Inc., 611 F. 2d 609 (5th Cir. 1980) (state’s extensive regulation of private racetrack does not give rise to state action). Golden v. Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, 530 F. 2d 16 (5th Cir. 1976) (en banc), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 872, 97 S.Ct. 186, 50 L.Ed.2d 152 (1976) (existence of lease between city and private club does not create state action). Having set out what we perceive to be the major lines of state action doctrine, we sift the facts and weigh the circumstances in t…