Derek Thomas v. Cassia County

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

APR 26 2022

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DEREK THOMAS, No. 20-35862

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 4:17-cv-00256-DCN

v.

MEMORANDUM*

CASSIA COUNTY; et al.,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho David C. Nye, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 8, 2022 San Francisco, California

Before: WARDLAW, IKUTA, and BADE, Circuit Judges.

Derek Thomas appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to

Deputy Michael Akers, Sheriff Jay M. Heward, and Cassia County on Thomas’s

claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Idaho law. Thomas argues that the defendants

committed various constitutional and Idaho law violations by arresting and

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. prosecuting him without probable cause and in retaliation for activities protected

by the First and Second Amendments. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

§ 1291.

1. We affirm…