{"id":57469,"date":"2024-03-29T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57469"},"modified":"2024-03-29T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:18:59","slug":"iowa-does-not-recognize-state-constitutional-torts-here-excessive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57469","title":{"rendered":"Iowa does not recognize state constitutional torts; here excessive force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iowa does not recognize state constitutional torts; here excessive force. \u201cKrystal Wagner, individually and as the administrator of the estate of her son, Shane Jensen, appeals the district court decision granting summary judgment to the State and Officer William Spece (together referred to as the State) on her constitutional tort claims. Following recent Iowa Supreme Court precedent, we conclude that Wagner&#8217;s constitutional tort claims are no longer actionable. See Burnett v. Smith, 990 N.W.2d 289, 307 (Iowa 2023).\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/courtcases\/18786\/embed\/CourtAppealsOpinion\">Wagner v. State<\/a>, 2024 Iowa App. LEXIS 269 (Mar. 27, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff was in a state court tax dispute, and her tax returns were sought, which were not produced. The case was dismissed as a sanction. [Aside from the obvious issue preclusion issues;] She fails to state a claim for a Fourth Amendment violation against the tax department lawyer. Also, her being ordered to briefly stay during a state court hearing to sign a release form wasn\u2019t a seizure. Bowman v. Friedman, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 7199 (10th Cir. Mar. 27, 2024).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defendant officers lawfully entered plaintiff\u2019s house for crisis intervention. Jones v. Thomas, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 7073 (3d Cir. Mar. 26, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa does not recognize state constitutional torts; here excessive force. \u201cKrystal Wagner, individually and as the administrator of the estate of her son, Shane Jensen, appeals the district court decision granting summary judgment to the State and Officer William Spece &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,69,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-exigency","category-seizure","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57470,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57469\/revisions\/57470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}