Nikolas Weeks v. City of Lake Norden; Jimmy Murphy, Former Lake Norden Police Chief

United States Court of Appeals
For the Eighth Circuit
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No. 24-2298
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Nikolas Weeks
lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellant
v.
City of Lake Norden; Jimmy Murphy, Former Lake Norden Police Chief
lllllllllllllllllllllDefendants - Appellees
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Appeal from United States District Court
for the District of South Dakota - Northern
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Submitted: July 15, 2025
Filed: July 18, 2025
[Unpublished]
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Before LOKEN, GRUENDER, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
Nikolas Weeks appeals the district court’s1 adverse grant of summary
judgment, following remand, in his pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. After careful
1The Honorable Charles B. Kornmann, United States District Judge for the
District of South Dakota.

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review of the record and the arguments properly before us, we conclude that summary
judgment was appropriate. See Jackson v. Stair, 944 F.3d 704, 709 (8th Cir. 2019)
(standard of review). As to Weeks’s claim against the City of Lake Norden based on
the city attorney’s allegedly malicious prosecution of a traffic violation, we conclude
that Weeks failed to come forward with evidence supporting a municipal-liability
claim. See Stockley v. Joyce, 963 F.3d 809, 823-24 (8th Cir. 2020); see also Bd. of
Cnty. Comm’rs of Bryan Cnty., Okl. v. Brown, 520 U.S. 397, 405 (1997). As to the
remainder of Weeks’s claims, we conclude that summary judgment was proper for the
reasons stated by the district court. Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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