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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.