Kenneth E. Sutton, Jr. v. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, a California Non-Profit Corporation

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• holding that the “ultimate issue” in deciding whether a private defendant can be sued under RFRA is whether “the alleged infringement of federal rights” is “fairly attributable to the government”
• holding that the plaintiff must establish that there l is “government compulsion” in addition to “some other nexus sufficient to make it fair to 2 attribute liability to the private entity as a governmental actor” under RFRA
• finding that employing plaintiff without him providing a social security number would cause employer to violate federal law
• noting that “a RFRA claim can be brought only against one who is engaged in 24 governmental (or state) action”
• reasoning that private actors did not violate a statute regulating government action when Congress did not expressly include private actors within the statute's reach
• explaining that an employer is not liable under Title VII when accommodating an employee’s religious beliefs would require the employer to violate federal or state law

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