Buckner v. Toro

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Monell’s policy or custom requirement applied to a private company that contracted to provide medical care to jail inmates
• holding that when a private corporation contracts with the government to provide medical services to inmates, the entity should be treated as a municipality
• holding that “[t]he Monell rationale applies to private entities acting in the place of [counties]”
• holding that private entities that perform functions traditionally within the exclusive prerogative of the state can be liable under Monell
• concluding that a private entity providing medical care to inmates may be directly liable under § 1983 if the action alleged to be unconstitutional is undertaken pursuant to that entity’s policy or custom
• holding that “the Monell policy or custom requirement applies in suits against private entities performing functions traditionally within the exclusive prerogative of the state, such as the provision of medical care to inmates”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).