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