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Stephanus v. Anderson, 613 P.2d 533 (1980)

Citation
Stephanus v. Anderson, 613 P.2d 533 (1980)
Parent Document
Stephanus v. Anderson, 613 P.2d 533 (1980)
Jurisdiction
Washington (state)
Effective Date
1980-06-02

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Fourteenth Amendment, a state may not deprive a person of his constitutional rights; and that a person may for any reason discriminate against other persons in his private affairs. The notion that these are polar propositions has led courts, in cases involving nominally private actions, to explore from each pole in order better to locate the equator. With the "state action" pole are associated such phrases as "state compulsion or involvement", and with the opposite pole, state "neutrality" and "purely private" or "merely private" conduct. In attempting to sort out the uses of these phrases, we recognize that in the broadest senses of the words, the states are always involved in private actions, are never pristinely neutral. (Footnotes omitted.)