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).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Perez v. Ponte
  E.D. New York· 2017-02-14· cited 25×
• Cunney v. Board of Trustees
  S.D. New York· 2014-09-29· cited 10×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Will v. Michigan Department of State Police
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-15· cited 14,197×
• Mireles v. Waco
  Supreme Court· 1991-10-21· cited 4,474×
• Cuoco v. Moritsugu
  Second Circuit· 2000-07-28· cited 2,979×
• Louis Gomez v. Usaa Federal Savings Bank and Janette Adger Mills
  Second Circuit· 1999-03-30· cited 1,428×
• Woods v. Rondout Valley Central School District Board of Education
  Second Circuit· 2006-10-10· cited 262×
• Omnipoint Communications, Inc. v. Town of LaGrange
  S.D. New York· 2009-08-31· cited 156×
• McKnight v. Middleton
  E.D. New York· 2010-03-29· cited 108×
• Doyle v. United Airlines, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2012-12-20· cited 23×