Nolan v. Snohomish County

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]n a legal 12 action involving a county, the county itself is the only legal entity capable of suing 13 and being sued.”
• “[I]n 18 a legal action involving a county, the county itself is the only legal entity capable of suing and 19 being sued.”
• “[I]n a legal action 14 involving a county, the county itself is the only legal entity capable of suing and being sued.”
• “because 22 current Washington case law indicates that a police department is not a legal entity with 1 the capacity to be sued, Defendants are entitled to summary judgment of [the plaintiff’s] 2 claims against [the police department].”
• “VPD is not a legal entity capable of being sued.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).