Court Opinion

ID: 9467511
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:50:39.95759+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:23.111202
License: Public Domain

WIDENER, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the result:
I think it sufficient to hold under Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks, 436 U.S. 149, 98 S.Ct. 1729, 56 L.Ed.2d 185 (1978), and District 28, UMWA v. Wellmore Coal Corp., 609 F.2d 1083 (4th Cir. 1979), that a private litigant who does no more than invoke a presumptively valid State judicial procedure, although he may have acted with malice, has not acted under color of State law and thus is not subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.