Cornish v. Correctional Services Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring that a plaintiff show that the alleged deprivation was committed by a person acting under color of state law
• noting that under any of the many tests employed to decide whether a private actor’s conduct can be fairly attributable to the State is a “necessarily fact-bound inquiry . . . .”
• describing the public function test, state compulsion test, the nexus or state action test, and the joint action test
• explaining a private banking corporation is not subject to § 1983 liability by performing public contracts.
• “Therefore, at issue is whether [Defendants’] decisions as an employer are fairly attributable to the State.”
• “Mere[] private conduct, no matter how discriminatory or wrongful, is excluded from § 1983’s reach.” (internal quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).