RENDELL-BAKER v. KOHN

No. 80-2102.

457 U.S. 830 (1982)

RENDELL-BAKER ET AL. v. KOHN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zachary R. Karol argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were S. Elaine Renfro, Alan Jay Rom, and John Reinstein.

Matthew H. Feinberg argued the cause for respondents and filed a brief for respondents Kohn et al. Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General of Massachusetts, pro se, Betty E. Waxman and Leah S. Crothers, Assistant Attorneys General, and Thomas R. Kiley, First Assistant Attorney General, filed a brief for respondents Bellotti et al.*


CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to decide whether a private school, whose income is derived primarily from public sources and which is regulated by public authorities, acted under color of state law when it discharged certain employees.

I

A

Respondent Kohn is the director of the New Perspectives School, a nonprofit institution located on privately owned

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