Stoll v. Noel

How courts have described this case

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• holding that physicians who contracted with the state to work as consultants for a state health care facility were state agents and entitled to sovereign immunity
• concluding that private doctors and their professional associations were agents of Children’s Medical Services
• explaining \that the roles of agent and independent contractor are not mutually exclusive\ and depend on \the degree of control retained or exercised by [the state]\
• reviewing the contract between the doctors and children’s medical services and the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services regulations to conclude that the doctors were agents of the state
• “Our conclusion is buttressed by HRS’s acknowledgement that the manual creates an ageny relationship between CMS and its physician consultants . . . .”
• “CMS requires each consultant, as a condition of participating in the CMS program, to agree to abide by the terms published in its HRS Manual and CMS Consultant’s Guide which contain CMS policies and rules governing its relationship with the consultants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).