Supreme Court· 6/23/1997

Richardson v. McKnight

Citations

521 U.S. 399
117 S. Ct. 2100
138 L. Ed. 2d 540
1997 U.S. LEXIS 3866

How courts have described this case

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

holding that because of the influence of market forces on private employers qualified immunity did not extend to prison guards who were employed by a private, for-profit corporation that had contracted with the state to manage the prison
“undertaking that task for profit and potentially in competition with other firms”
explaining that § 1983 immunities extend only to state actors
private prison guards, unlike those who work directly for the government, do not enjoy immunity from suit in a § 1983 case
“[W]e have answered the immunity question narrowly, in the context in which it arose”
private company prison guards not entitled to qualified immunity defense in § 1983 case

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Judges: Scalia, Breyer, Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Scaliá, Rehnquist, Kennedy, Thomas

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