Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys: 8.3.5 Municipal Liability for Employees Sued in Official Capacities
A local government official sued in their official capacity is a “person” suable under § 1983, where “a local government would be suable in its own name.”4263 An official capacity suit “is not a suit against the official personally, for the real party in interest is the entity.”4264 Official-capacity suits “‘generally represent only another way of pleading an action against an entity of which an officer is an agent.’”4265 It is no lo