Bennett L. Crowder, II v. J.K. Conlan

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• holding that there was no state action under § 1983 because the hospital and staff were not state actors even despite connections with the state government
• explaining that plaintiff must demonstrate nexus between the specific chállenged action and the governmental involvement alleged to provide the basis for a finding of state action
• holding state was not responsible for private hospital’s personnel decisions even if hospital derived “a considerable percentage of its revenues from government fund ing” and county was “owner and lessor of the hospital’s physical plant”
• finding no state action where the defendants’ actions were based on “medical judgments made by private parties according to professional standards”
• no state action although two of hospital’s thirteen-member board of trustees were public officials

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).