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Summary: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 01-20910 Summary Calendar EUGENE E. SHANKS, SR.; ET AL., Plaintiffs, EUGENE E. SHANKS, SR.; FLITELINE MAINTENANCE INCORPORATED, Plaintiffs-Appellants, versus JAMES H. MAHON; ET AL., Defendants, JAMES H. MAHON; RAY O. WALL; JACK L. WEST, Defendants-Appellees. _ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (H-98-CV-2048) _ June 28, 2002 Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:
Summary: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 01-20910 Summary Calendar EUGENE E. SHANKS, SR.; ET AL., Plaintiffs, EUGENE E. SHANKS, SR.; FLITELINE MAINTENANCE INCORPORATED, Plaintiffs-Appellants, versus JAMES H. MAHON; ET AL., Defendants, JAMES H. MAHON; RAY O. WALL; JACK L. WEST, Defendants-Appellees. _ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (H-98-CV-2048) _ June 28, 2002 Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:*..
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
No. 01-20910
Summary Calendar
EUGENE E. SHANKS, SR.; ET AL.,
Plaintiffs,
EUGENE E. SHANKS, SR.; FLITELINE MAINTENANCE INCORPORATED,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
versus
JAMES H. MAHON; ET AL.,
Defendants,
JAMES H. MAHON; RAY O. WALL; JACK L. WEST,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Texas
(H-98-CV-2048)
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June 28, 2002
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
Eugene E. Shanks and Fliteline Maintenance, Inc., appeal the
summary judgment awarded defendants (qualified immunity). We
*
Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
review de novo. FED. R. CIV. P. 56(c); Hale v. Townley,
45 F.3d
914, 917 (5th Cir. 1995).
Although it appears Plaintiffs have waived this issue by
failing to brief it, see Yohey v. Collins,
985 F.2d 222, 225 (5th
Cir. 1993), the district court did not err in concluding that the
allegations of malicious prosecution did not establish a
constitutional violation because the underlying criminal proceeding
did not terminate in Eugene Shanks’ favor (pleaded guilty). Evans
v. Ball,
168 F.3d 856, 863 & n.10 (5th Cir. 1999) (“A Bivens action
is analogous to an action under § 1983 - the only difference being
that § 1983 applies to constitutional violations by state, rather
than federal, officials”; “a plaintiff attempting to base a Bivens
claim on a prosecution unsupported by probable cause must establish
all the elements of malicious prosecution, including termination of
the prosecution in his favor”); see also Heck v. Humphrey,
512 U.S.
477, 486-87 (1994); Brandley v. Keeshan,
64 F.3d 196, 199 (5th Cir.
1995), cert. denied,
516 U.S. 1129 (1996).
In the light of this disposition of the appeal, we need not
address the district court’s alternative basis for awarding summary
judgment.
AFFIRMED
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