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193300P.pdf   08/21/2020  Brad Wendt  v.  State of Iowa
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-3300
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Colloton and Wollman, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. The service or verification of a citation is not a seizure for Fourth Amendment purposes and the count of plaintiff's complaint alleging the issuance and verification violated their Fourth Amendment rights was properly dismissed for failure to state a claim; the district court did not err in considering summary judgment for plaintiff's unreasonable search claims under the Iowa Constitution; the district court did not err in granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiffs' claim the warrants for their Facebook records were overbroad; further, the district court did not err in finding defendants were entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiffs' claim that the warrant applications were not supported by probable cause; the district court did not err in granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiff's allegations concerning the placement of a GPS tracker as the record did not support the claim that a tracking device had been placed on plaintiff Wendt's truck; there was no evidence the officers intentionally or recklessly failed to investigate the case such that their conduct would shock the conscience and violate plaintiffs' due process rights.