Parker v. Bladen County

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• holding that the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office is a non-suable entity
• finding that the sheriff’s role as final policymaker regarding personnel decisions was “of course . . . distinguishable” from the facts of Dotson
• stating that sheriff’s departments “lack the legal capacity to be sued.”
• dismissing state tort and federal constitutional claims against the Bladen County Sheriff's Office after the defendants removed the case to federal court
• dismissing Section 1983 claims against Bladen County Sheriff’s Department because it “lacks legal capacity to be sued,” as no North Carolina “statute authoriz[es] suit against a North Carolina county’s sheriff’s department”
• “[U]nder North Carolina law, the sheriff, not the county encompassing his jurisdiction, has final policymaking authority over hiring, supervising, and discharging personnel in the sheriff's office.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).