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Parties Involved:
Agency Rental Car
Appellee
Donald E. Ewing
Appellant

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS United Stat.es Court ()[Appeals Tenth Circuit 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

DONALD E. EWING, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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vs. ) 

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AGENCY RENTAL CAR, ) 

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Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

MAY 6 1993 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 92-3428 

(D.C. No. 92-3421-DES) 

(D. Kan.) 

Before TACHA, BALDOCK, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.** 

Plaintiff-appellant Ponald E. Ewing appeals the dismissal of 

his claim based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We grant Mr. Ewing leave to 

proceed in forma pauperis on appeal and affirm. 

The district court dismissed Mr. Ewing's claim as one based 

on an indisputably meritless legal theory. See 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1915(d); Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319 (1989). Mr. Ewing 

failed to demonstrate how Defendant-appellee Agency Car Rental 

acted under color of state law. "It is axiomatic that, in order 

to maintain a civil rights action, the 'conduct allegedly causing 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

** After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th .Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause therefore is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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the deprivation of a federal right [must] be fairly attributable 

to the state.'" Niehaus v. Kansas Bar Ass'n, 793 F.2d 1159, 1163 

(10th Cir. 1986) (quoting Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 

922, 937 (1982)). Accordingly, we affirm the dismissal of the 

complaint. 

AFFIRMED. 

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Entered for the Court 

Paul J. Kelly, Jr. 

Circuit Judge 

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