Baines v. Masiello

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• holding that a conspiracy claim brought against “the Common Council, the Mayor, and the City Clerk” was barred by the intra-corporate conspiracy doctrine
• holding that a conspiracy claim brought against “the Common Council, the Mayor, and the City Clerk” was barred by the intra-corporate conspiracy doctrine
• declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction in part because “all of the state law claims set forth in the Second Amended Complaint have been raised in a parallel action currently pending in New York State Supreme Court”
• citing, inter alia, Kentucky v. Graham, 473 U.S. 149, 166 (1985)
• “[A] suit against a municipal officer in his or her official capacity is functionally equivalent to a suit against the entity of which the officer is an agent.”
• “[A] suit against a municipal officer in his or her official capacity is functionally equivalent to a suit against the entity of which the officer is an agent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).