Sherman v. Franklin Regional Medical Center

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 private company contracted to run a low-income housing project was not a state actor under the public-functions test because the “the provision of low-income housing has never been exclusive to the government”
• stating that “Section 1983’s ‘under color of state law’ requirement has long been regarded as functionally equivalent to the ‘state action’ requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment”
• stating that “Section 1983’s ‘under color of state law’ requirement has long been regarded as functionally equivalent to the ‘state action’ requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment”
• describing the “three general ways in which a private party may become a state actor”
• private company that managed low-income housing and evicted the plaintiff was not a state actor
• “Once the district court concluded that the plaintiff had failed to plead a plausible claim under section 1983, it appropriately declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the plaintiff’s state-law claims[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).