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DELEGATE MITCHELL; I think the courts have
interpreted the state to include all of the political
subdivisions, the agencies, the servants, employees,
wherever the state influence and support goes; that is
where the state is.
That is state action.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hostetter.
DELEGATE HOSTETTER: Delegate Mitchell, then
what you are saying, the words "discrimination which the
state" -- that does mean state action?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hostetter.
DELEGATE HOSTETTER: Now, discrimination by
law, would this also mean state action?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: Yes, law as it is commonly
known, is interpreted by masses of people to mean legis-
lation, but law can mean the rules of the state, whether
' it is legislative, whether it is the court precedents,
whether it is administrative and the like, but we believe