212180P.pdf   06/29/2022  Courtney Saunders  v.  Kyle Thies
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2180
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Benton and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. The record does not support plaintiff's claim 
   that officers seized him from the moment they pulled up behind him on a 
   residential street; the traffic stop was supported by reasonable suspicion 
   that defendant had violated Iowa law by stopping his car in front of a 
   fire hydrant, and the officers were entitled to qualified immunity under 
   both federal and Iowa law on plaintiff's claim of unreasonable seizure; 
   plaintiff failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether 
   the officers unreasonably prolonged the stop, and the officers were 
   entitled to qualified immunity on this claim; plaintiff failed to show 
   that the police officers who made the stop were motivated in any part by 
   plaintiff's race; as a result, the court need not decide whether the 
   proper standard is motivated solely by race or in part by race, and the 
   officers were entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's racial 
   profiling claim; with respect to plaintiff's Section 1983 and Section 1985 
   conspiracy claims, the claims must fail in the absence of an underlying 
   constitutional violation; with respect to plaintiff's claims that the 
   Chief of Police and the City were deliberately indifferent to policies, 
   training and supervision practices that violate the Fourth, Fifth and 
   Fourteenth Amendments, the claims must fail as a result of plaintiff's 
   failure to show that the officers who conducted the stop violated his 
   constitutional rights; with respect to the claims made under Iowa law, the 
   record failed to show that the need for additional training or that the 
   existence of any inadequacies was so obvious that the municipality can be 
   deemed deliberately indifferent; the district court did not abuse its 
   discretion by refusing to certify plaintiff's racial profiling issues to 
   the Iowa Supreme Court.