Calvin Lewis Owens, Jr. v. Fulton County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “For liability purposes, a suit against a public official in his official capacity is considered a suit against the local government entity he represents.”
• “For liability purposes, a suit against a public official in his official capacity is considered a suit against the local government entity he represents.”
• “For liability purposes, a suit against a public official in his official capacity is considered a suit against the local government entity he represents.”
• “For liability purposes, a suit against a public official in his official capacity is considered a suit against the local government entity he represents.”
• a district attor- ney was a state official because “the prosecution of state of- fenses” is “a state-created power”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).