Consolidated Cement Corp. v. Pratt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a non- governmental employee may be sued as a state actor under § 1983 only if he is a “willful participant[] in joint activity with the State or its agents”
• acknowledging that a county Republican committee “could act under color of state law for some purposes,” but not in its decision to fire two employees because of their sexual orientation
• discussing as state action the exercise of those powers that have been “recognized as traditionally exclusively sovereign”
• “To state a claim for relief under section 1983, the Plaintiffs must plead two essential elements: 1
• § 1983 claims failed where plaintiffs did not show the action of a private individual amounted to state action
• “To state a claim for relief under section 1983, the Plaintiffs must plead two 22 essential elements: 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).