Shawn C. Pride, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant v. Various John Does, Trooper Jan Lamb, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee

TACHA, Circuit Judge.

Shawn C. Pride appeals the district court order granting summary judgment for the defendants on his claim for violation of his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.

I. Background

On the evening of September 9, 1988, Shawn Pride (“Pride”), his brother Mark Pride, and his friend Stuart Whitenack visited the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas. At the time, Pride was a twenty-one-year-old student at Wichita State University, The defendant, Jan Lamb, was a Kansas State Trooper on plainclothes duty that night at the…