Jensen v. Lane County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a private physician was a state actor when he signed an order under Oregon law to involuntarily commit the plaintiff
• finding that policy justifications for qualified immunity do not support the availability of the defense to private psychiatrist that contracted with a county-run hospital
• noting that “substantial 16 funding for private actors [is] not sufficient to transform the party’s conduct into state 17 action”
• holding contract services provided by licensed private physicians to municipal governments in the detention and 24 examination of persons brought into treatment facilities by police officers as possible mental patients constituted state action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).