SIMON

v.

TEXAS ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Zant v. Stephens, 456 U.S. 410 (U.S. 1982)
  …jury, the failure of one circumstance does not so taint the proceedings as to invalidate the other aggravating circumstance found and the sentence of death based thereon.” Gates v. State, 244 Ga. 587, 599, 261 S. E. 2d 349, 358 (1979), cert. denied, 445 U. S. 938 (1980). Despite the clarity of the state rule we are asked to review, there is considerable uncertainty about the state-law premises [*415] of that rule.3 The Georgia Supreme Court has never explained the rationale for its position. It may be that…

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• Phelps v. The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, 886 F.2d 1262 (10th Cir. 1989)
  …llege that defendants were motivated by racial animus. See Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Hous. Dev. Corp., 429 U.S. 252, 265, 97 S.Ct. 555, 563, 50 L.Ed.2d 450 (1977); Harris v. Harvey, 605 F. 2d 330, 338 (7th Cir.1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 938, 100 S.Ct. 1331, 63 L.Ed.2d 772 (1980). The First Amended Complaint alleges that one of the newspaper articles described plaintiff as “a black man’s lawyer, ‘a modern-day John Brown’, and ‘a savior’ to blacks in Kansas” and that those statements r…
• Gibson v. The City OF Chicago, 910 F.2d 1510 (7th Cir. 1990)
  …(1980); Harris v. Harvey, 605 F. 2d 330, 337 (7th Cir.1979) (judge who acted in excess of his jurisdiction still was found to have acted under color of state law by "using the power and prestige of his office to damage the plaintiff”), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 938, 100 S.Ct. 1331, 63 L.Ed.2d 772 (1980); United States ex rel Brzozowski v. Randall, 281 F.Supp. 306, 311 (E.D.Pa.1968) (township policemen who went outside their jurisdiction to find plaintiff, identified themselves as township policemen, displayed…