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GARDNER v. GOVERNOR APARTMENTS ASSOCIATES

396 Mass. 661 (1986)

488 N.E.2d 3

ROBERT GARDNER vs. GOVERNOR APARTMENTS ASSOCIATES & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Brody for the defendants.

Gerald E. Katz for the plaintiff.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

We consider here whether the ruling of a judge of the Boston Housing Court that the plaintiff is entitled to relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) is correct. We conclude that no State action was involved in the wrongs the defendants committed and consequently that Gardner is not entitled to relief under § 1983.

Gardner was a tenant in the defendants' premises at 197 Kelton Street in the Brighton...

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