Legal Opinion
Tamara Villanueva v. City of Scottsbluff
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 20, 2015No. 14-1792PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
After ending her brief affair with Scotts-bluff Police Chief Alex Moreno, Tamara Villanueva filed suit against Moreno and the City of Scottsbluff (Scottsbluff) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged violations of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and also state tort law. The district court 1 granted summary judgment in the defendants’ favor on the § 1983 claims and declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law tort claim. Villanueva timely appealed, and we affirm. 2
1. BACKGROUND
In late 2008, Moreno and Villanueva began a watch group…
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- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by18 opinions
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