Margaret M. Carver and Randall S. Carmean v. Sheriff of Lasalle County, Illinois, and Lasalle County, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• “Because state law requires the county to pay, federal law deems it an indispensable party to the litigation.”
• “[A] county in Illinois is a necessary party in any suit seeking damages from an independently elected county officer (sheriff, assessor, clerk of court, etc.
• “[A] county in Illinois is a necessary party in any suit seeking dam- ages from an independently elected county officer … in an official capac- ity.”
• County is liable for indemnification of Sheriff sued in his official capacity and is an indispensable party so long as the Sheriff remains in the suit
• “[A] county in Illinois is a necessary party in any suit seeking dam- ages from an independently elected county officer … in an official capac- ity.”
• “[A] county in Illinois is a necessary party in any suit seeking damages from an independently elected county officer (sheriff, assessor, clerk of court, and so on) in an official capacity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).