Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a police department's “capacity to be sued in federal court” is 2 determined by state law
• “[E]ven if the case were on all fours we would not be bound by [the California court’s conclusion in Peters ] regarding section 1983 liability because such questions implicate federal, not state, law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).