Stacy Arnold v. City of St. Joseph, Missouri, No. 21-1261 (8th Cir. 2021)

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Court Description: [Per Curiam - Before Erickson, Grasz, and Stras, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. The district court did not err in determining plaintiff lacked standing as to her claims for declaratory and injunctive relief and did not err in granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiff's remaining claim for damages.

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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 21-1261 ___________________________ Stacy K. Arnold lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant v. City of St. Joseph, Missouri; St. Joseph Public Library; Officer Rebecca Hailey, In her personal and professional capacity lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri - St. Joseph ____________ Submitted: September 14, 2021 Filed: September 17, 2021 [Unpublished] ____________ Before ERICKSON, GRASZ, and STRAS, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Stacy Arnold appeals after the district court1 dismissed some of her claims and adversely granted summary judgment as to her 1 The Honorable Beth Phillips, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. remaining claims. After careful review of the record and the parties’ arguments on appeal, we conclude the district court properly determined Arnold lacked standing as to her claims for declaratory and injunctive relief, see Buckler v. United States, 919 F.3d 1038, 1044 (8th Cir. 2019) (reviewing de novo grant of motion to dismiss under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1)); City of Kennett v. EPA, 887 F.3d 424, 430 (8th Cir. 2018) (reviewing de novo standing determination on summary judgment); and properly granted summary judgment as to her claims for damages, see McReynolds v. Schmidli, 4 F.4th 648, 652 (8th Cir. 2021) (reviewing de novo grant of summary judgment). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. ______________________________ -2-

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