S.H.A.R.K. v. Metro Parks Serving Summit County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a one-time contractual relationship between the private entity and the state did not show entwinement
• stating that the entity “must be the moving force behind the deprivation, such that the entity’s policy of custom played a part in the violation of federal law”
• stating that the entity “must be the moving force behind the deprivation, such that the entity’s policy of custom played a part in the violation of federal law”
• stating that the entity “must be the moving force behind the deprivation, such that the entity’s policy of custom played a part in the violation of federal law”
• finding that a private individual working with park rangers was not a state actor when he erased security tapes even though the rangers “encouraged” but did not compel him to do so
• finding that a private individual working with park rangers was not a state actor when he erased security tapes even though the rangers “encouraged” but did not compel him to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).