Kenneth Johnson v. Pinkerton Academy, Kenneth Johnson v. Pinkerton Academy

How courts have described this case

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• maintaining educational institutions not an exclusive public function and private high school not state actor despite state attendance reguirements
• “If there were responsibilities in the present case, they would relate to students, and not to teachers.”
• state’s act of permitting private school to participate in public retirement program “would be no more than the equivalent of additional compensation to defendant for its teaching services by relieving defendant of pension obligations”
• “The maintaining of public roads would seem a classically exclusive state function, but this does not make a private contractor a state operator, owing § 1983 obligations to its employees.”
• state’s act of permitting private school to partici- pate in public retirement program “would be no more than the equivalent of additional compensation to defendant for its teaching services by relieving defendant of pension obliga- tions”
• responsibilities of private school relate to students not teachers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).