Katherine Jeffries v. Georgia Residential Finance Authority, Harriet J. MacKlin Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that tenants retained a protected property inter- est in their leases despite having received legally sufficient notice to terminate because the state entity “had the [statutory] authority to evict only for cause”
• explaining that “the fourteenth amendment proscription against deprivations of property without due process of law reaches only government action and does not inhibit the conduct of purely private persons in their ordinary activities”
• noting settled rule that Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause reaches only government action and not private action
• “It is well settled that the fourteenth amendment proscription against deprivations of property without due process of law reaches only government action and does not inhibit the conduct of purely private persons in their ordinary activities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).