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· 8/18/1999

Stewart Ginsberg v. Healey Car & Truck Leasing, Inc. And Michael P. Healey, John Fitzgerald

Citations

  • 189 F.3d 268
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 19577

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Healey's provision of background information to a police officer does not by itself make Healey a joint participant in state action under Section 1983.”
  • private actor’s “provision of background information to a police officer does not by itself make [him] a joint participant in state action under Section 1983”
  • “[An appellee’s] provision of background information to a police officer does not by itself make [that appellee] a joint participant in state action under Section 1983.”
  • private party’s “provision of background information to a police officer does not by itself make [the private party] a joint participant in state action under Section 1983”
  • “Where . . . a police officer exercises independent judgment . . ., the private party is not ‘jointly engaged’ in the officer’s conduct so as to render it a state actor under Section 1983.”
  • evidence of a “concerted effort or plan” could support state action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Winter, Sack, Sprizzo

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