Legal Opinion
David Sample v. City of Woodbury
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 6, 2016No. 15-3213PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PERRY, District Judge.
David J. Sample brought this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Woodbury (“the City”) and City prosecutors. Sample alleged that the City’s failure to develop a conflict-of-interest policy led to a violation of his constitutional rights when the prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against him while simultaneously representing the victim of his alleged crime in separate civil actions. The prosecutors — Mark J. Vierling, Sean P. Stokes, Rebecca Christensen, and Joseph Van Thomme — are private attorneys from the law firm of Eckberg, Lammers, Briggs, Wolff…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Owen v. City of IndependenceSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by136 opinions
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