Roger Moore v. Kenneth Carpenter, in His Individual and Official Capacity City of Poplar Bluff Joe Ward

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• officers involved in creditor- repossession dispute were immune given lack of clarity regarding fact-specific question whether this amounted to state action
• officers involved in creditor- repossession dispute were immune given lack of clarity regarding fact-specific question whether this amounted to state action
• officers immune given lack of clarity regarding fact-specific question whether officer involvement in dispute during creditor repossession amounted to state action
• officers “required to make a close decision in the midst of a repossession fracas” could not have determined they were liable
• officers “required to make a close decision in the midst of a repossession fracas” could not have determined they were liable
• “States are held responsible for private conduct only when the state has exercised coercion or significantly encouraged the conduct, not when the state has merely acquiesced in a private party’s initiatives.”

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