Elmer Pace and Linda Pace v. City of Des Moines, Iowa, and Brian Danner

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• dismissing for lack of jurisdiction an argument based on a factual dispute, but considering appellant’s other purely legal contentions
• if a “genuine dispute exists concerning predicate facts material to the qualified immunity issue, the defendant is not entitled to summary judgment on that ground
• “It is well established in this circuit that an action for malicious prosecution by itself is not punishable under § 1983 because it does not allege a constitutional injury.”
• “The jurisprudential doctrine described in Manson ..., against the admission of unduly suggestive lineups is only a procedural safeguard, and does not establish a constitutional right to be free of suggestive lineups.”
• “It is well established in this circuit that an action for malicious prosecution by itself is not punishable under § 1983 because it does not allege a constitutional injury.” (internal quotations and citations omitted)

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