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201674P.pdf   04/26/2021  Levi Wilson  v.  Scott Lamp
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-1674
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Western   
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. For the court's prior opinion in the case, see Wilson v. Lamp, 901 F.3d 981 (8th Cir. 2016). On remand, a jury found for plaintiffs on their federal excessive force claim and the district court granted defendants summary judgment on plaintiffs' state law claims for invasion of privacy and Iowa illegal search and seizure; Plaintiffs appeal. Held: in the prior case, this court granted defendants summary judgment on the corresponding Fourth Amendment claims and as Iowa and federal law do not materially differ, the district court properly dismissed the state-law based claims for unreasonable search and seizure under the law of the case doctrine; the district court also properly granted defendants summary judgment on plaintiffs' state law invasion-of-privacy claim as the officers' conduct in the case was not a highly offensive intrusion on the private affairs or concerns of plaintiffs and the stop of plaintiffs' vehicle was otherwise lawful; jury instructions on elements of Fourth Amendment and Iowa Constitution excessive force claims were consistent with this court's directions on remand; since Iowa's standard for excessive force does not materially differ from the federal standard, the court did not need to give the jury a separate instruction on Iowa law.