Under Seventh Circuit precedent, private companies are shielded from liability for the actions of their employees if the company is acting as an arm of the state. Seventh Circuit: And there’s no need to revisit that here. Concurrence: But our precedent is problematic in cases where an individual employee may not have acted with deliberate indifference but a bunch of employees collectively did—for instance, a team of medical contractors failing to schedule an inmate’s surgery promptly. Attorneys take note.
