Lois White v. Scrivner Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming judgment after bench trial where evidence did not show joint action between police and private merchant in latter's detention and search of potential shoplifter
• no color of law because police department had policy of independently investigating before making arrests for shoplifting
• “A merchant’s detention of persons suspected of stealing store 28 property simply is not an action exclusively associated with the state.”
• “A merchant’s detention of persons suspected of stealing store property simply is not an action exclusively associated with the state.”
• state action exists if police arrest individuals for shoplifting solely due to allegation of store owner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).