Latimer v. Jackson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION BRANDON W LATIMER CASE NO. 20-cv-687 JUDGE DRELL DEWAYNE JACKSON ET AL MAGISTRATE JUDGE PEREZ-MONTES RULING Before the court is a motion to dismiss filed by the Aaron Mitchel, Sheriff of the Sabine Parish Sheriff's Office (Doc. 26) seeking dismissal from suit as it does not poesses the legal capacity to be sued. We agree. Parish Sheriff's Departments, or Offices, are not juridical entities capable of being sued. See Cozzo v. Tangipahoa Parish Counsel, 279 F.3d 273, 283 (5" Cir. 2002) (citing Porche v St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, 67 F.Supp.2d 631, 635 (E.D. La. 1999)); Valentine _v. Bonneville Ins. Co., 691 So.2d 665,668 (La. 1997). Accordingly, the claims against the Sabine Parish Sheriff's Office should be dismissed. The court will issue a judgment in conformity with these finding. oh THUS DONE AND SIGNED at Alexandria, Louisiana this 2y¥ day of November 2021. << [SSS □ ss DEE D. DRELL, JUDGE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT