Ninth Circuit· 6/23/1989

Collins v. Womancare

Citations

878 F.2d 1145
1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 9046

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recognizing actions taken by a private party that are contrary to the relevant state policy or rule are not conduct fairly attributed to the state
distinguishing between theories whereby the private actor might be found to be a state actor under a Lugar analysis and a theory of “joint action”
finding no joint action, 6 even though arrests were precipitated by private parties, where officers conducted their 7 own independent assessment before acting
finding no state action when abortion clinic employees complained to police officer about protesters and asked them to make arrests but police refused and tried to discourage employees from making citizens’ arrests
necessitating a showing of “substantial 25 cooperation” between the private party and the State
addressing two-part test from Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co., 457 U.S. 922, 928 (1982)

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