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202676P.pdf   08/10/2021  Dan Charleston  v.  Bill McCarthy
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-2676
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. For the court's prior opinion in the matter, see Charleston v. McCarthy 926 F.3d 982 (8th Cir. 2019). The district court did not err in determining that the doctrine of collateral estoppel barred plaintiff's claim that he was terminated in retaliation for his campaign for the office of sheriff; the district court could give the Iowa Civil Service Commission's determination preclusive effect; plaintiff failed to make a prima facie case that his two-day suspension was political retaliation as he could not establish a causal connection between the suspension and his political campaign.