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· 3/22/2010

CASTANZA v. Town of Brookhaven

Citations

  • 700 F. Supp. 2d 277
  • 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27058
  • 2010 WL 1049238

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that Town did not need warrant to enter property and abate nuisance
  • stating that officers, agents, and employees of a single corporate entity are legally incapable of conspiring together
  • “Based upon the 4 “Although the Supreme Court’s decision in [Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009
  • “[I]t is duplicative to name both a government entity and the entity’s employees in their official capacity.”
  • “[I]t is duplicative to name both a government entity and the entity’s employees in their official capacity
  • “Official-capacity suits generally represent only another way of pleading an action against an entity of which an officer is an agent.” (brackets omitted; internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

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Judges: Feuerstein

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