213550P.pdf   08/02/2022  Manda Roberson  v.  The Dakota Boys & Girls Ranch
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-3550
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Eastern   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In a case where plaintiffs' minor decedent 
   committed suicide while in the care of the defendant, the district court 
   dismissed plaintiffs' Section 1983 action on the ground defendants were 
   not state actors. The district court erred in dismissing the action. The 
   State of North Dakota, having taken full custody of the child, outsourced 
   its constitutional duty to provide medical care to a child in its custody 
   to defendants, thereby delegating a traditional, exclusive public function 
   to the defendants and making them state actors; the defendants maintained 
   a clear, ongoing relationship with the North Dakota Division of Juvenile 
   Services by providing long-term care to the child on behalf of the 
   Division, thereby assuming the State's constitutional duty to provide the 
   minor with medical care and making them state actors.