Laise v. City of Utica

How courts have described this case

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• city police department is “not a legal entity against whom a suit can be directed”
• city police department is “not a legal entity against whom a suit can be directed”
• a city police department is merely an agency of the city, not a legal entity, and therefore is not a proper defendant in a § 1983 lawsuit
• a city police department is merely an agency of the city, not a legal entity, and therefore is not a proper defendant in a § 1983 lawsuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).