Hines v. French

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Baltimore County Police Department was an agent of the State and dismissing it as a separate defendant
• recognizing that police departments are agents of the State and “are not legally cognizable entities subject to suit in [their] own name”
• holding that officers were entitled to judgment as a matter of law on claims of battery, false imprisonment, and false arrest where they had legal justification to arrest the plaintiff
• holding that “the Harford County Sheriff’s Office is not a separate legal entity capable of being sued and, consequently it was properly dismissed as a defendant”
• holding that officers were entitled to judgment as a matter of law on claims of battery, false imprisonment, and false arrest where they had legal justification to arrest the plaintiff
• holding that officers were entitled to judgment as a matter of law on claims of battery, false imprisonment, and false arrest where they had legal justification to arrest the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).