Opinion ID: 2481
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: Government Contracts

Text: SYI's contract with the government does not convert its conduct into state action. The government enters into contracts for all kinds of goods and services without converting its contractors into state actors; architects designing federal buildings or engineers building bridges do not thereby become government actors. See Rendell-Baker v. Kohn, 457 U.S. 830, 841, 102 S.Ct. 2764, 73 L.Ed.2d 418 (1982) (the [a]cts of ... private contractors do not become acts of the government by reason of their significant or even total engagement in performing public contracts). The fact that a private entity performs a function which serves the public does not make its acts state action. Id. at 842, 102 S.Ct. 2764. The contract itself is insufficient to render all of the contractor's conduct state action, and the CPU contract here is not enough by itself to make SYI a state actor. See id.