United States v. Otto Hoffman and Richard Curotto

How courts have described this case

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• holding privately employed railroad police officers by delegation of legislative authority acted under color of state law while on duty with same powers as city police
• “The acts charged occurred while [the defendants] were on duty ... while possessing the same powers as city police.”
• \The acts charged occurred while [the defendants] were on duty . . . while possessing the same powers as city police.\
• Although contract with CHA allowed guard to carry gun, it only permitted him to detain individuals for trespass and only pending arrival of police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).