Legal Opinion
Timothy Lawyer v. City of Council
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2004No. 03-1032PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.
Timothy and Michael Lawyer appeal the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment in favor of police officers John Clark and Dan Newby in this lawsuit arising from a traffic stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa. We affirm.
I
On March 26, 1999, at approximately 2:24 a.m., Officer John Clark of the Council Bluffs Police Department stopped Michael Lawyer for driving 85 miles per hour in a 55 mile-per-hour zone. The encounter was videotaped with audio from Officer Clark’s police cruiser, leaving many of the facts in this case undisputed. Michael, then age 17, was driving with his…
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