Billy Lamon Blackburn v. Fisk University

How courts have described this case

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

• granting of a charter by the state to private university is not state action
• the court is “required to accept only well-pleaded facts as true, not the legal conclusions that may be alleged or that may be drawn from the pleaded facts”
• state chartering, tax exemption, power to condemn property adjacent to campus
• 42 U.S.C. Secs. 1983 and 1985

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).