City of Peru v. Lewis

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• holding that a department of a city is merely the vehicle through which the city government fulfills its functions, not a legal entity itself, and thus cannot be sued or brought into court
• noting that units of local government, but not their individual departments, are suable under Indiana law
• city fire department could not be sued for negligence in its individual capacity, as separate entity from city; fire department was entitled to common law immunity
• “The ‘department’ of a city is merely a vehicle through which government fulfills its policy 1 The Court recognizes that the state law battery claim in Count III alleges that the Officers acted with “malice,” Compl. ¶ 29, and that Indiana Code § 34-13-3-5(c)(3

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