Harrison v. Chalmers

How courts have described this case

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• holding punitive damages are not available against persons sued for § 1983 violations in their official capacities
• “. . . a suit against a governmental officer in his official capacity is the same, for purposes of recovery, as a suit against the governmental entity itself... .””

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).