Dwan v. City of Boston

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the City of Boston had been substituted as a defendant for the Boston Police Department because the police department “is not a suable entity”
• observing that to prove his incriminating statements were compelled, an employee must show that he was “threatened or forewarned of [a] sanction for refusing to testify”
• recognizing the substitution of the City of Boston as the proper defendant where plaintiff brought his suit against the Boston Police Department, rather than the City of Boston
• recognizing the substitution of the City of Boston as the proper defendant where plaintiff brought his suit against the Boston Police Department, rather than the City of Boston
• recognizing the substitution of the City of Boston as the proper defendant where plaintiff brought his suit against the Boston Police Department, rather than the City of Boston
• “The City of Boston was substituted for the [Boston Police] Department because the Department is not a suable entity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).