...4* Amendment are addressed only to the State or to those acting under color of its authority [S]ince the District of Columbia is not a 'State' within the meaning of the 90 F. Supp. 2d 35, 37. Id., at 40 (emphasis supplied). 409 US 418 (1973). Id., at 423-24. 7 14* Amendment...

...District of Columbia, Section 1983 did not apply to District residents. "[TJhe commands of the 14"1 Amendment are addressed only to the State or to those...restrictions."26 For this reason, the Court held, "[IJnclusion of the District of Columbia in § 1983 cannot be subsumed under Congress' power to enforce...

...Amendment are addressed only to the State or to those acting under color of its authority. . . [S]ince the District of Columbia is not a 'State' within the meaning of the 14* Amendment . . neither the District nor its officers are subject to its restrictions."26 For this...

...native, it would be necessary to affirmatively show the nationality and racial quality of his parents. The District of Columbia is not a State within the meaning of the provision giving Courts of the United States cognizance of controversies between citizens of different...

...$500. 1 St. 78; 18 St. 470. At an early day it was held, in Hepburn v. Ellzey, 2 Cranch, 445, that the District of Columbia is not "a state," within the meaning of that term as used in the article of the constitution defining the judicial power of the United States,...