In re Costco Stormwater Dishcharge Permit, Costco Final Plat & Site Plan, Costco Act 250 Land Use Permit, Wetlands, Reclassification (R.L. Vallee, Inc. and Timberlake Associates LLP, Appellants)

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• holding that a duty under state law to report suspected child abuse did not transform the defendant hospital or its doctors state actors
• “[T]he frequent reality that the State regulates private entities or cooperates with them does not transform private behavior into state behavior.”
• “Had the County conscripted [the private hospital] as an investigative arm of the State, the [private hospital’s] physicians’ actions would be state action[.]”
• “Section 1983 does not permit individuals to sue state actors in the abstract; it requires them to connect alleged constitutional violations of the individuals’ rights to state conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).