David M. Henschel v. Worcester Police Department, Worcester, Massachusetts

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a 3 municipal police department is not a suable entity under § 1983
• holding that the Worcester Police Department is not a suable entity
• explaining that a municipal police department is not a suable entity because it is the municipality that will pay any judgment
• explaining that a municipal police department is not a suable entity because it is the municipality that will pay any judgment
• stating that City of Worcester Police Department is not suable entity
• explaining that “the Police Department [is not] a suable entity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).