Gershwain Sprauve v. West Indian Company Limited

OPINION

(August 25, 2015)

CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.

Gershwain Sprauve and Andrea Smith appeal the District Court’s dismissal of their cases for the failure to state a claim. The District Court found that Sprauve’s and Smith’s claims under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 failed because defendant West Indian Company, Limited (“WICO”), their former employer, is not a government entity. Applying the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, 513 U.S. 374, 115 S. Ct. 961, 130 L. Ed. 2d 902 (1995), we hold that WICO must be…