Smith v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “departments or subdivisions” of local government are not “juridical entities suable as such”
• personal injury statute of limitations is three years which also applied to section 1983 claims
• a police department is not a “judicial entit[y] suable as such.”
• police department not a juridical entity suable as such
• departments and subdivisions of City governments not suable entities

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).