Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit August 15, 1985, 84-2628 (Nance B. Hinman, Individually and on Behalf of All Those Similarly Situated v. Lincoln Towing Service, Inc.)

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

This litigation hinges on whether a commercial relocator’s retention of a trespassing vehicle — removed from private property pursuant to a request from or contract with a private landowner — until it receives a money payment from the vehicle’s owner, as permitted by Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 95V2 ¶ 18a-501 (1983), constitutes an act properly attributable to the State of Illinois.