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· 3/29/2001

Gray v. City of Chicago

Citations

  • 159 F. Supp. 2d 1086
  • 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3780
  • 2001 WL 314990

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that police department does not have legal existence separate from municipality
  • Chicago police department is merely a department of the City of Chicago that does not have a separate legal existence
  • Chicago police department is merely a department of the City of Chicago that does not have a separate legal existence
  • “The Police Department is not a suable entity, but merely a department of the City of Chicago which does not have a separate legal existence.”
  • “The [Chicago] Police Department is not a suable entity, but merely a department of the City of Chicago which does not have a separate legal existence.”

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Judges: Kocoras

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