| | FEAR's Brief Bank II: indexed by issue |
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| | Summary judgment | [ | 417 | ] |
| | MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS' CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY |
| | JUDGMENT ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER DEFENDANTS CONSPIRED WITH |
| | OFFICIALS ACTING UNDER COLOR OF STATE LAW |
| | The media defendants claim that they were not engaged in a conspiracy under color of state law -- as opposed to |
| | federal law -- arguing that "[t]he DEA agents in this case derived their authority exclusively from federal law, |
| | and therefore could not be said to be state officials or to have been working under color of state law." These |
| | claims ignore the plain facts: the task force was a multi-jurisdictional task force, made up primarily of county |
| | and local police officers. State action has been found in conspiracies involving a mixture of federal and state |
| | agents, working together on a case. State action has been found where the actors are federal and state agents at |
| | the same time -- i.e., where they serve two sovereigns simultaneously. State action has been found when the |
| | actors worked for multijurisdictional entities created by contract between agencies of several sovereigns |
| | by | Grantland, Brenda |
| | STEVEN | v. | AMERICAN BROADCASTING CO. INC., A.D. | E.D.Cal. | CIVS-94- | ( | 1997 | ) |
| | ROSEVEARE and | PRODUCTIONS |
| | TOYA ROSEVEARE |
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