Mulvihill v. New York

How courts have described this case

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

• dismissing claims against a department of. social services while noting that “the proper defendant would be [the county]”
• dismissing § 1983 claim against Ontario County Department of Social Services because it is not a suable entity
• ‘“In New York, agencies of a municipality are not suable entities’ because ‘[u]nder New York law, departments that are merely administrative arms of a municipality have no separate legal identity apart from the municipality and therefore cannot be sued.' ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).