Court Opinion

ID: 3026411
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-13 22:35:47.443929+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:43.377264
License: Public Domain

[UNPUBLISHED]
 

  PER CURIAM.
 

  After his criminal prosecution for City ordinance violations and later dismissal from City employment, John S. Grimes, Jr. brought this civil rights action against the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, alleging malicious prosecution and violations of the Fourth Amendment, Due Process, and the Confrontation Clause. The district court
  
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  granted summary judgment to the City, holding the undisputed facts showed the City complied with due process because Grimes was given adequate notice of all actions being taken against him and had an opportunity to be heard both before and after his termination. The district court concluded Grimes’s malicious prosecution claim failed because there was no evidence the City acted in an outrageous manner in bringing criminal charges against Grimes. Although Grimes’s was eventually acquitted because the ordinances he violated were unconstitutionally vague, the charges were brought in good faith. The district court also held Grimes lacked standing to bring any Fourth Amendment claim because he no longer owned the property in question when it was searched without a warrant. Last, the court concluded Grimes’s Confrontation Clause claim failed because Grimes failed to present any evidence that the City retaliated against him for taking his criminal case to trial. On appeal, Grimes contends the district court committed error in granting summary judgment.
 

  We see no useful purpose in writing at length about this fact-intensive situation. Because there is no genuine issue of material fact and the City is entitled to judgment as a matter of law, we hold the district court properly granted summary judgment to the City, and thus summarily
   
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  8th Cir. R. 47B. We also grant the City’s motion to strike portions of Grimes’s addendum, which were not included in the joint appendix submitted by the parties.
 

  A true copy.
 

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   The Honorable Gary A. Fenner, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.