Johnny Ray Layne v. Richard Sampley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “in certain cases” state action may be decided “as a matter of law”
• finding the off-duty police officer in plain clothes acted under color of law when he shot the plaintiff because the animosity grew out of the police officer’s performance of his official duties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).