Carthew v. County of Suffolk

How courts have described this case

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• holding Suffolk County police department is an administrative arm of the County and, thus, lacks the capacity to be sued
• holding Suffolk County police department is an administrative arm of the County and, thus, lacks the capacity to be sued
• holding Suffolk County police department is an administrative arm of the County and, thus, lacks the capacity to be sued
• evaluating whether to retain jurisdiction over state law claims after determining that plaintiffs federal claims did not survive summary judgment
• granting summary judgment on malicious prosecution claim where “plaintiff [did] not ma[k]e the Court aware of any post-arrest facts that would alter the initial finding of probable cause”
• “It is well settled that an entity such as the Suffolk County Police Department is an ‘administrative arm’ of the same municipal entity as Suffolk County and thus lacks the capacity to be sued.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).