Rice v. District of Columbia Public Defender Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \The Supreme Court instructs that ‘a public defender does not act under color of state law when performing a lawyer's traditional functions as counsel to a defendant in a criminal proceeding.\’
• “Courts in this Circuit are bound by the Supreme Court’s ruling, and [they] have dismissed civil rights claims against defense counsel on the ground that counsel are not state actors when representing clients.”
• “Courts in this Circuit are bound by the Supreme Court’s ruling [in Polk County ], and have dismissed civil rights claims against defense counsel on the ground that [appointed] counsel are not state actors when representing clients.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).