Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Assn., 531 U.S. 288, 28 (2001)

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Cite as: 531 U. S. 288 (2001)

Thomas, J., dissenting

ties. I am not prepared to say that any private organization that permits public entities and public officials to participate acts as the State in anything or everything it does, and our state-action jurisprudence has never reached that far. The state-action doctrine was developed to reach only those actions that are truly attributable to the State, not to subject private citizens to the control of federal courts hearing § 1983 actions.

I respectfully dissent.

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