United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
PER CURIAM:
This interlocutory appeal raises the question whether a private contractor acting under color of state law is entitled to qualified immunity from an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We answer in the negative on the authority of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Richardson v. McKnight, ___ U.S. ___, 117 S.Ct. 2100, 138 L.Ed.2d 540 (1997).
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