Sanders v. Bertrand

How courts have described this case

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

• substituting City of Evanston for Evanston Police Department as defendant where plaintiff brought § 1983 claims alleging excessive force
• “The police department is not a separate entity that can be sued under § 1983, so we have substituted the City of Evanston as the institutional defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).