Ridlen v. Four County Counseling Center

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• holding that the involuntary commitment by a not-for-profit corporation was not a function so reserved to the state to transform the private actor into a state actor
• because no affirmative action was taken by state to deprive him of liberty, voluntarily committed patient who killed himself after leaving the facility and becoming an outpatient cannot state a claim under due process clause for failure to give needed care and treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).