Bill Wickersham Maureen Doyle v. City of Columbia, Memorial Day Weekend Salute to Veterans Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a private air show is a state actor when its president is the “final arbiter of what constituted unwanted protest” and directs whom police arrest
• holding that a police department’s “prearranged role” in carrying out a private company’s speech-suppression policy constituted state action
• holding that a private air show is a state actor when its president is the “final arbiter of what constituted unwanted protest” and directs whom police arrest
• listing, as among those circumstances that make the party a state actor: a private party’s use of “power traditionally exclusively reserved to the State”; willful participation in a “joint activity with the State”; and “pervasive entwinement” between it and the State (quotations omitted)
• “[T]he mere invocation of state legal procedures, including police assistance, does not convert a private party into a state actor.”
• “[T]he mere invocation of state legal procedures, including police assistance, does not convert a private party into a state actor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).