172434P.pdf   09/10/2018  Gerald Johnson  v.  Mike Moody
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2434
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. The district court did not abuse its discretion 
   in denying plaintiffs' Rule 56(d) motion for additional discovery time 
   when defendants sought summary judgment based on a claim of qualified 
   immunity; the Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that qualified 
   immunity claims should be resolved at the earliest possible stage of the 
   litigation; the individual defendant police officers were entitled to 
   qualified immunity on plaintiffs' claims that their conduct in 
   investigating a claim of sexual assault, as the evidence that they ignored 
   inconsistencies in the evidence, failed to investigate leads and did not 
   question the victim's credibility was insufficient to establish that they 
   investigated the case in a reckless, conscience-shocking manner; as the 
   individual officers were entitled to qualified immunity, the court 
   properly dismissed a count for supervisor liability against the police 
   chief and the city; dismissal of other counts for malicious prosecution, 
   negligent hiring and supervision and loss of consortium affirmed; 
   plaintiffs made no showing that any of the sought-after-facts were 
   essential to resisting the defendants' motion for summary judgment or that 
   the evidence existed, and the district court did not abuse its discretion 
   by denying the Rule 56(d) request to defer its ruling on the motion for 
   summary judgment until additional discovery was completed.