John Tarkowski v. Robert Bartlett Realty Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that private person is not engaged in state action by merely invoking the exercise of judicial authority
• upholding dismissal of complaint alleging that private party induced state officials to discriminate in enforcing zoning ordinances
• “A private person does not conspire with a state official merely by invoking an exercise of the state’s official authority.”
• \Mere conjecture that there has been a conspiracy is not enough to state a claim.\
• “A private person does not conspire with a state official merely by invoking an exercise of the state official’s authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).