Estades-Negroni v. CPC Hospital San Juan Capestrano

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• holding that parties that filed a court petition seeking the plaintiffs involuntary commitment did not thereby become state actors
• explaining that \'in rare circumstances' . . . private parties can be viewed as [government] actors\ (quoting Harvey v. Harvey, 949 F.2d 1127, 1130 (11th Cir. 1992))
• rejecting the argument that defendants “are state actors under the public function test because they provided health services to indigents”
• rejecting argument that private hospital’s procedure for determining an individual’s civil commitment rendered the hospital a state actor
• affirming dismissal of constitutional claim arising from the plaintiff’s involuntary commitment pursuant to Puerto Rico law
• finding no state action where complaint failed to allege that the state was involved in the defendant’s decision which formed the basis for the constitutional violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).