Turner v. Houma Municipal Fire & Police Civil Service Board

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when a party sues a government employee in her official capacity as well as the governmental entity itself, “[t]he official-capacity claims and the claims against the governmental entity essentially merge.”
• explaining that “defenses such as absolute quasi-judicial immunity, that only protect defendants in their individual capacities, are unavailable in official-capacity [§ 1983] suits”
• observing that when “a defendant government official is sued in his individual and official capacity, and the city or state is also sued,” the “official-capacity claims and the claims against the governmental entity essentially merge”
• “[D]efenses such as absolute quasi-judicial immunity, that only protect defendants in their indi- vidual capacities, are unavailable in official-capacity suits.”
• “[D]efenses such as absolute quasi-judicial immunity, that only protect defendants in their individual capacities, are unavailable in official-capacity suits.”
• “Official-capacity suits . . . generally represent only another way of pleading an action against an entity of which an officer is an agent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).