Urrego v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that when a state actor’s alleged unconstitutional conduct is due to his own initiative, rather than the directive of a private party, the private party will not be deemed a state actor
• ex plaining that when a state actor’s alleged unconstitutional conduct is due to his own initiative, rather than the directive of a private party, the private party will not be deemed a state actor
• circumstances known to the officers, that dogs were kept in a partially renovated uninhabited house that lacked electricity and heat, suggested that the dogs were in urgent need of assistance, thus permitting a warrantless search and seizure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).