United States Second Circuit

Hospital was acting primarily as a health care provider, and not a state actor, by refusing to release newborn to parents when initial urine tests revealed possible presence of drugs and was thus not subject to a civil rights claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2000
• Published 12/07/2000

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge:, Before: FEINBERG, VAN GRAAFEILAND and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carolyn A. Kubitschek,Lansner & Kubitschek, New York, N.Y. (David J. Lansner, Lisa Napoli and Christopher S. Weddle, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Bruce A. Young, New York, NY, filed a brief for Amicus Curiae the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform., Nanette H. Schorr, Bronx Legal Services, Bronx, NY, filed a brief for Amicus Curiae Bronx Legal Services.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan Choi-Hausman, New York City Law Department, New York, N.Y. (Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Steven Friedman and Barry P. Schwartz, of counsel), for Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees., Jennifer Bienstock, Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, New York, NY, for Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees.