Court Opinion

ID: 806861
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2012-08-17 15:01:41+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:09.884105
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United States Court of Appeals
                             For the Eighth Circuit
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                                 No. 12-1040
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                                   Gregory Givens

                        lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellant

                                            v.

State of Iowa; City of Cedar Rapids Police Department; Michael Dierks, Police Officer

                      lllllllllllllllllllll Defendants - Appellees
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                     Appeal from United States District Court
                 for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
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                            Submitted: August 10, 2012
                              Filed: August 17, 2012
                                  [Unpublished]
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Before MURPHY, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Iowa inmate Gregory Givens appeals the district court’s1 preservice dismissal
of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. After careful de novo review, see Moore v. Sims,

      1
      The Honorable Edward J. McManus, United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Iowa.
200 F.3d 1170, 1171 (8th Cir. 2000) (per curiam), we affirm the district court’s
judgment, and deny Givens’s motion for appointment of counsel. See 8th Cir. R.
47B.
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