BASKIN v. PARKER

No. 76-4071.

588 F.2d 965 (1979)

Gary BASKIN and Beulah Baskin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Eugene PARKER and Curtis L. Smith, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 1, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Baskin, pro se.

Beulah Baskin, pro se.

H. Evans Scobee, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, CLARK and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

"[T]he King hath no prerogative, but that which the law of the land allows him," declared Sir Edward Coke in Proclamations, 12 Co.Rep. 74, 76 (1611). Now, over three centuries later, we examine further the scope of the principle that those who enforce the law must themselves obey it in the light of the federal Civil Rights Act that permits suit against every person who under color of a state...

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