Hall v. City of White Plains

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing claims against White Plaints Department of Public Safety where claims also asserted against municipality
• “Because plaintiff has named the City of White Plains as a defendant, any claims against the [White Plains Department of Public Safety (WPDPS’
• “Because plaintiff has named the City of White Plains as a defendant, any claims against the WPDPS are redundant.”
• “Because plaintiff has named the City of White Plains as a defendant, any claims against the [White Plains Department of Public Safety (‘WPDPS’
• “A police department cannot sue or be sued because it does not exist separate and apart from the municipality and does not have its own legal identity”
• “Under New York law, departments which are merely administrative arms of a municipality[] do not have a legal identity separate and apart from the municipality and cannot sue or be sued.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).