ruling that departments or subdivisions of Police Dep't, 2019 WL 2568664, at (E.D. Mo. June 21, 2019) (dismissing claim against county police department because “a police department is not a juridical entity subject to suit”
How later courts described this case
- ruling that departments or subdivisions of Police Dep't, 2019 WL 2568664, at (E.D. Mo. June 21, 2019) (dismissing claim against county police department because “a police department is not a juridical entity subject to suit”
- holding that departments According to the Eighth Circuit, “pro se status does not excuse [Plaintiff’s] failure to name the proper parties.” Jackson v. Mo. Bd. of Prob. & Parole, 306 F. App’x 333, 333 (8th Cir. 2009
- finding that West Memphis Police Department and Paramedic Services are departments or subdivisions of - city government and are-not separate “juridical entities suable as such"
- holding that departments or subdivisions of city government, such as the police department or paramedic services, “are not juridical entities suable as such” in a § 1983 action
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The opinion
FAGG, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. The court makes a judicial mountain out of a legal molehill. Keeping a case like Ketchum’s on a federal court docket merely encourages spite-based litigation and trivializes the Constitution. I am hard pressed to find an encroachment on the Constitution when police officers have done nothing more than transport a transient from one side of a bridge to another. I believe the district court wisely dismissed this tattered case.