context: Legal Aid is correct, as far as it goes, that the Second Circuit expressly has ruled that Legal Aid is not a state actor.
citation_a.signal: no signal
citation_a.identifier: 445 F.2d 1150, 1157
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that although Legal Aid provides services for indigent criminal defendants which governmental agencies otherwise might have to assume, it is a private institution "in no manner under State or City supervision or control"
citation_a.sentence: Lefcourt v. Legal Aid Soc., 445 F.2d 1150, 1157 (2d Cir.1971) (holding that although Legal Aid provides services for indigent criminal defendants which governmental agencies otherwise might have to assume, it is a private institution “in no manner under State or City supervision or control”); Housand v. Heiman, 594 F.2d 923, 924-25 (2d Cir.1979) (public defenders and court-appointed defense attorneys do not “act under color of law”); see also Polk County v. Dodson, 454 U.S. 312, 325, 102 S.Ct. 445, 453, 70 L.Ed.2d 509 (1981) (“[A] public defender does not act under color of state law when performing a lawyer’s traditional functions as counsel to a defendant in a criminal proceeding.”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: "[A] public defender does not act under color of state law when performing a lawyer's traditional functions as counsel to a defendant in a criminal proceeding."
citation_b.sentence: Lefcourt v. Legal Aid Soc., 445 F.2d 1150, 1157 (2d Cir.1971) (holding that although Legal Aid provides services for indigent criminal defendants which governmental agencies otherwise might have to assume, it is a private institution “in no manner under State or City supervision or control”); Housand v. Heiman, 594 F.2d 923, 924-25 (2d Cir.1979) (public defenders and court-appointed defense attorneys do not “act under color of law”); see also Polk County v. Dodson, 454 U.S. 312, 325, 102 S.Ct. 445, 453, 70 L.Ed.2d 509 (1981) (“[A] public defender does not act under color of state law when performing a lawyer’s traditional functions as counsel to a defendant in a criminal proceeding.”).