Barna v. City of Perth Amboy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that \unauthorized use of a police-issue nightstick is simply not enough to color [a] clearly personal family dispute with the imprimatur of state authority\
• holding that “unauthorized use of a police-issue nightstick is simply not enough to color [a] clearly personal family dispute with the imprimatur of state authority”
• holding that officers were not acting under color of state law even though police-issued weapons were involved
• holding that \unauthorized use 17 of a police-issue nightstick is simply not enough to color [a] clearly personal family dispute with the imprimatur of state authority\
• holding that \unauthorized use 17 of a police-issue nightstick is simply not enough to color [a] clearly personal family dispute with the imprimatur of state authority\
• holding that a public employee’s “purely private acts which are not furthered by any actual or purported state authority are not acts under color of state law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).