Horen v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF TOLEDO CITY SCH. DIST.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that law firm and its attorneys who represented a public school board were not state actors
• holding there is no prejudice when construing a 12(c) motion as a 12(b)(6), as they have “essentially the same” standards of review
• stating that a public entity’s retained attorney is “far from being an official or even a government employee,” and, therefore, the attorney is “not [an] agent[] of the State”
• rejecting plaintiffs’ attempt to impute § 1983 liability to attorneys whose sole connection to state government was their provision of legal services to public school system
• “Because defendants are not state actors, they cannot be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
• “Because defendants are not state actors, they cannot be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).