George Hadges v. Yonkers Racing Corporation

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• noting that the “close nexus” test is “the standard for determining whether state regulatory control qualifies as state action”
• no state action found even though defendant received a tax credit from the state and the State benefited from revenue from defendant
• “[T]he State in the instant case does not have a proprietary interest in [defendant’s business].”
• racetrack’s denial of employment to jockey not state action where racetrack did not act at behest of state official and was not enforcing violation of state racing law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).