Legal Opinion
Steven Ray Wycoff v. James Menke, Official of the Iowa State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 25, 1985No. 84-1872PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Steven Wycoff, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. The district court dismissed Wycoff’s complaint after determining that James Menke, a penitentiary official, was immune from suit in this instance. We affirm the district court’s dismissal. But, because we conclude that the Supreme Court’s decision in Wilson v. Garcia, — U.S. -, 105 S.Ct. 1938, 85 L.Ed.2d 254 (1985), operates retroactively to bar Wy-coff’s claim as outside the applicable Iowa statute of limitations, we have no need to reach the…
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