Sykes Ex Rel. Estate of Purnell v. McPhillips

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• holding that a physician who provided medical care to an inmate in a private hospital’s emergency department, “which he was obligated under law to provide,” was not a state actor for purposes of § 1983
• doctors “non-contractual provision of medical services outside of the prison context, in an 21 emergency room, is not sufficient to support a finding of state actor status”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).