Skolnick v. Hallett

How courts have described this case

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• finding, in litigation challenging federal officials' promulgation and enforcement of AFDC regulations, that federal officials could not be found to have acted \under color of state law\ absent allegation of conspiracy with state officials
• finding, in litigation challenging federal officials’ promulgation and enforcement of AFDC regulations, that federal officials could not be found to have acted “under color of state law” absent allegation of conspiracy with state officials
• “[U]nder Fed.R.Civ.P. 56 the district court’s finding that summary judgment was appropriate hinged upon the absence of factual disputes, not the clarity of the law.”
• the second inquiry encompasses examination of position regarding merits, as well as decision to defend action
• \existence of precedents construing similar statute or similar facts\ are important to the reasonableness of the government's decision to defend an action at trial
• loss on summary judgment does not demonstrate lack of substantial justification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).