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SPENCER v. ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION

No. 99-3125.

164 F.Supp.2d 1056 (2001)

Carole SPENCER, Plaintiff, v. The ILLINOIS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION, an Illinois not for profit corporation, Grey Warrner, Thornton Ridinger, Vincent E. Thomas, John Dimit, Dwight Lucas, Frank Schwab, Ken PettiJohn, Granada Williams, MacFarland Bragg, Gail Evans, Dennis Williams, Donna Ferency, and Judith Eikstadt, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Springfield Division.

September 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Baker Law Offices of James P. Baker, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff.

David A. Rolf, Sorling, Northrup, Hanna, Cullen & Cochran, Ltd., Springfield, IL, Michael H. Cramer, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL, Matthew D. Bilinsky, Michael J. McGee, Susan M. Osthus, Office of IL Attorney General, Springfield, IL, for Defendant.

OPINION

RICHARD MILLS, District Judge.

In the context of ... 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ..., we have said "`under color' of law has consistently been treated as the same thing as the `state action' required under the Fourteenth Amendment."

Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia, 517 U.S. 186, 249, 116 S.Ct. 1186, 134 L.Ed.2d 347 (1996)

(Kennedy J., dissenting).

Because Plaintiffs employer...

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