Ketchum v. Albuquerque Police Dept.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police departments such as “APD are not suable entities under § 1983, because they lack legal identities apart from the municipality”
• holding that “police departments ... are not suable entities under § 1983, because they lack legal identifies apart from the municipality.”
• holding that a municipal police department is not an entity that could be sued because it lacks a legal identity apart from the municipality
• holding a municipal police department is not a suable entity because it lacks a legal identity apart from the municipality or county
• finding a municipal police department not a suable entity since it lacks a legal identity apart from the municipality or county
• finding a municipal police department not a suable entity since it lacks a legal identity apart from the municipality or county

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).