Nam v. Montgomery County

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “service of process on the intended defendant is not essential to stop the running of limitations .... ”
• “The LGTCA . . . does not authorize the maintenance of a suit directly against the local government.”
• “When the state gives a city or county part of its police power to exercise, the city or county to that extent is the state.”
• because court dismissed “John Doe, M.D.” with prejudice upon plaintiffs’ request, at a time when they knew his identity, plaintiffs were estopped to later amend claim to add him as a defendant
• “Nowhere in the Act, however, is there a waiver of immunity so that the governmental entity is subject to being made a party to an action based upon its employee’s or agent’s tortious acts.”
• “Nowhere in the Act, however, is there a waiver of immunity so that the governmental entity is subject to being made a party to an action based upon its employee’s or agent’s tortious acts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).