Steve Brown v. Fifth Judicial District Drug Task Force

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• reviewing district court’s dismissal for plain error where plaintiff did not respond to defendant’s motion to dismiss
• reviewing district court’s dismissal for plain error where plaintiff did not respond to defendant’s motion to dismiss
• finding no plain error in district court granting defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss arguing it is not legal entity capable of being sued
• affirming dismissal of case where defendant lacked the capacity to be sued
• “Rule 17(b)(3)(A) permits courts to imbue unincorporated associations and partnerships with the capacity to sue. But this power does not extend to entities that lack legal existence.”
• only “legal entities” are “subject to suit”; “a group of persons working together for a common purpose must first be found to have legal existence before the question of capacity to sue or be sued can arise”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).