State Action and the Developing Federal Common Law of Property

FAIN: FT-11552-73

Peter N. Simon
University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO 80303-1058)

To study the developing Supreme Court definition of "state action." the due process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendement of the United State Constitution are limitied in their effect of the actions of state; if a particular activity does not involve "state action" it is not reviewable under these clauses.