Florida City Police Dept. v. Corcoran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a police department, as a part of city government, was not itself an entity that could be sued
• holding that a Florida municipal police department lacks the capacity to be sued
• noting that the municipality, not the police department, had the power to sue and be sued under Florida law
• noting that the municipality, not the police department, had the power to sue and be sued under Florida law
• noting that the municipality, not the police department, had the power to sue and be sued under Florida law
• noting that the municipality, not the police department, had the power to sue and be sued under Florida law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).