Source: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-ca8-05-01244/USCOURTS-ca8-05-01244-0/pdf.json

Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 

---

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

___________

No. 05-1244

___________

Shawna Carr, *

*

Appellant, *

*

v. * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the Eastern

Lake Village Police Department; * District of Arkansas.

Percy Wilburn, Individually and *

in his Official Capacity as Chief * [UNPUBLISHED]

of Police for the City of Lake *

Village; Jacqueline Brown, Sergeant, *

Individually and in her Official *

Capacity as an Employee of the *

City of Lake Village Police *

Department; City of Lake Village; *

Joanne Bush, Mayor, Individually *

and in her Official Capacity as Mayor *

of the City of Lake Village, Arkansas *

(originally sued as Jo Ann Bush), *

*

Appellees. *

___________

Submitted: October 10, 2005

Filed: November 7, 2005

___________

Before ARNOLD, BOWMAN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

___________

Appellate Case: 05-1244 Page: 1 Date Filed: 11/07/2005 Entry ID: 1971997
1

The Honorable Susan Webber Wright, United States District Judge for the

Eastern District of Arkansas.

-2-

PER CURIAM.

 Shawna Carr appeals from the summary judgment that the district court1

entered against her in her action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Ms. Carr had claimed that

the defendants had violated her right to the equal protection of the law and had

deprived her of her property without the due process of law, all as guaranteed by the

fourteenth amendment. The district court ruled that although the defendant police

officers acted under color of law when they seized Ms. Carr's automobile, they were

nevertheless not liable because Ms. Carr had a post-deprivation remedy for any loss

of property, see Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527, 541-43 (1981), overruled on other

grounds, Daniels v. Williams, 474 U.S. 327, 330-31 (1986), and because there was no

evidence that in seizing the car the defendants failed to treat similarly-situated people

alike, see Klinger v. Department of Corrections, 31 F.3d 727, 731 (8th Cir. 1994),

cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1185 (1995).

We agree with the district court's conclusions and, having nothing to add to its

well-reasoned opinion, we affirm the judgment.

______________________________

Appellate Case: 05-1244 Page: 2 Date Filed: 11/07/2005 Entry ID: 1971997