Joseph A. Bryant v. Jefferson Federal Savings and Loan Association

How courts have described this case

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• finding no state action in challenged foreclosure practices because the deed of trust was created, “not through governmental enactment, but by private consensual agreement”
• “[E]xtrajudicial foreclosure is permissible only when the instrument executed by the fee owner itself expressly authorizes the mortgagee or trustee to sell the property at a public auction if the owner defaults in his payments.”
• similar District of Columbia foreclosure law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).