DONALD ALAN TOBKIN, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF HIS MINOR CHILDREN, TRACEY TOBKIN, TABBY TOBKIN AND TOBY TOBKIN, APPELLANTS,
v.
MARILYN BYRD TOBKIN, SUSAN REITER-GREENBAUM, SHLOMO (SHELDON) GREENBAUM, BARBARA SCHNEIDER, SYDNEY MARIE HOLLEY-DAUGHTER OF MARILYN BYRD TOBKIN, CYNTHIA BATES AND CITY OF HOLLYWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT, APPELLEES

Fla. 4th DCA | 2005-04-12
No. 4D05-2413
POLEN, KLEIN and SHAHOOD, JJ„ concur.
925 So. 2d 337 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2005)

Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant brought an action against a number of parties, including the City of Hollywood Police Department, which is not an entity subject to suit. Eddy v. City of Miami, 715 F.Supp. 1553, 1556 (S.D.Fla.1989) (“Where a police department is an integral part of the city government as the vehicle through which the city government fulfills its policing functions, it is not an entity subject to suit.”). We affirm the dismissal of the police department without prejudice to appellant amending his complaint to add the proper entity. Affirmed.

POLEN, KLEIN and SHAHOOD, JJ„ concur.


Cases With Similar Vibessemantic neighbors from the corpus


Citator

Authorities Cited

Full citator, related cases, and AI research tools

Open in FLexlaw