Fisk v. Letterman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a private actor “act[s] under the color of state law if they jointly participate or conspire with a state actor to violate an individual’s federal rights”
• holding “a private party who calls police officers for assistance” cannot be held liable under § 1983 “unless the police officers were improperly influenced or controlled by the private party”
• stating that “a private party who calls police officers for assistance” cannot be held liable under § 1983 “unless the police officers were improperly influenced or controlled by the private party”
• “[a]lleging merely that a private party regularly interacts with a state actor,” as plaintiff did in this case, “does not create an inference of agreement to violate a plaintiff's rights.”
• “[The Young defendants] were colluding with the police and other authorities in executing a warrantless search of the Plaintiffs’ [sic] home, making the Young Defendants state actors....”
• “[A] private party who calls the police for assistance does not become a state actor unless the police were influenced in their choice of procedure or were under the control of a private party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).