William Street v. Corrections Corporation of America, Jimmy Turner, and Dexter Stephen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a private corporation acting under color of state law may be liable only where its custom or policy caused a constitutional violation
• holding that private entities employed by the state cannot be held liable under § 1983 on a respondeat superior theory of liability
• holding that a private corporation acting under color of state law may be liable only where its custom or policy caused a constitutional violation
• holding that a private corporation acting under color of state law may be liable only where its custom or policy caused a constitutional violation
• holding that private entity contracted to operate a prison, as well as its employees, were acting under color of state law
• holding that private prison company was a state actor when it incarcerated inmates for the state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).