Petaway v. City of New Haven Police Department

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that supplemental jurisdiction “is a matter of discretion, not of right”
• recognizing that supplemental jurisdiction “is a matter of discretion, not of right”
• finding, on a motion for summary judgment, that plaintiff failed to state a claim of false imprisonment because “he was in fact lawfully in the custody of the Department of Correction pursuant to the Remand to Custody Order for the parole violation”
• “[A] municipal police department is not subject to suit under section 1983 because it is not an independent legal entity.”
• “[A] municipal police department is not subject to suit under section 1983 because it is not an independent legal entity.”
• “[A] municipal police department is not subject to suit under section 1983 because it is not an independent legal entity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).