Jacobs v. Port Neches Police Department

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• holding that county sheriff's department and county district attorney’s office are not legal entities capable of suing or being sued
• holding that county sheriff’s department and county district attorney’s office are not legal entities capable of suing or being sued
• reasoning that under Texas law, county sheriff and police departments generally lack the capacity to be sued in the absence of an express grant of jural authority
• raising “the issue of the defendants’ capacity as a jural entity to sue or be sued” on the Court’s “own motion” even though the defendants “neither asserted nor briefed the issue”
• “In Texas, county sheriff’s and police departments generally are not legal entities capable of being sued, absent express action by the superior corporation (the county, in the case of the sheriff’s department

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).