Parker v. Bladen County

How courts have described this case

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

• 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).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Stockton v. Wake County
  E.D. North Carolina· 2016-03-24· cited 9×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Erickson v. Pardus
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-04· cited 34,635×
• City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-02· cited 3,553×
• Giarratano v. Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-03-25· cited 1,208×
• Goodman v. Praxair, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-07-25· cited 1,009×
• McMillian v. Monroe County
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-02· cited 879×
• Kloth v. Microsoft Corp.
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-04-18· cited 157×
• Knight v. Vernon
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-06-02· cited 49×
• Dotson v. Chester
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-06-05· cited 48×
• Efird v. Riley
  M.D. North Carolina· 2004-11-01· cited 47×
• Little v. Smith
  W.D. North Carolina· 2000-08-17· cited 21×
• Moore v. CITY OF ASHEVILLE, NC
  W.D. North Carolina· 2003-11-13· cited 20×
• Harter v. Vernon
  M.D. North Carolina· 1996-03-22· cited 9×
• Flood v. Hardy
  E.D. North Carolina· 1994-11-21· cited 4×