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213039P.pdf 08/16/2022 Michael Klein v. Warren Steinkamp
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3039
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. The district court properly dismissed
plaintiff's state law claims for false arrest and unlawful seizure as
barred by the relevant Iowa two-year statute of limitations;
alternatively, the claims were also barred by the two-year limitations
period in Section 1983; plaintiff's malicious prosecution claim was
properly dismissed as without merit as there was probable cause for his
arrest for possession of methamphetamine and failure to have a tax stamp