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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
IVAN CRUMP,
Defendant-Appellant.
   No. 21-6160
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville.
No. 3:18-cr-00190—Eli J. Richardson, District Judge.
Decided and Filed: April 11, 2023
Before: MOORE, THAPAR, and NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judges.


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OPINION
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NALBANDIAN, Circuit Judge. Responding to a “shots fired” call, officers arrived at an apartment, finding blood on the walls and items scattered everywhere. Ivan Crump, who was incoherently mumbling and wearing nothing but a towel, was the only person inside. A protective sweep and subsequent search led the police to find two guns, ammunition, drugs, drug paraphernalia, and several documents bearing Crump’s name. So they arrested him. And while he was behind bars, Crump said on recorded phone calls that he had fired a gun and wanted to get back to drug trafficking. Crump was charged and convicted of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon under the Armed Career Criminal Act. He now appeals on four grounds. Finding no error, we affirm.



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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
ZACHARY JOHN KENNEDY,
Defendant-Appellant.
   No. 21-1741
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Michigan at Grand Rapids.
No. 1:21-cr-00037-1—Paul Lewis Maloney, District Judge.
Decided and Filed: April 11, 2023
Before: KETHLEDGE, WHITE and BUSH, Circuit Judges.


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AMENDED OPINION
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HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge. Defendant-Appellant Zachary Kennedy was sentenced to 210 months in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy with intent to distribute various drugs. He appeals his sentence, asserting two guideline scoring errors and a violation of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. We AFFIRM.



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BILLY LEMASTER and AMANDA LEMASTER dba Lemaster Towing and Recovery,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
LAWRENCE COUNTY, KENTUCKY; PHILLIP L. CARTER, Lawrence County Judge Executive, in his individual and official capacities,
Defendants-Appellees.
   No. 22-5135
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at Ashland.
No. 0:20-cv-00012—David L. Bunning, District Judge.
Argued: October 27, 2022
Decided and Filed: April 11, 2023
Before: McKEAGUE, WHITE, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


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OPINION
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MURPHY, Circuit Judge. Billy and Amanda Lemaster run a towing business in Lawrence County, Kentucky. The County placed their business on its “rotation list” of companies to call when it needed to order a tow. Soon after Phillip Carter began managing the County, Billy Lemaster criticized his decision to fire an employee. According to the Lemasters, this criticism led Carter to orchestrate their removal from the County’s rotation list in violation of the First Amendment. But the district court held that the Lemasters did not produce enough evidence to get a jury trial over whether Lemaster’s criticism motivated Carter’s actions. We disagree and clarify the relevant causation rules in the process. Yet we agree with the district court’s other conclusion that the Lemasters could not hold the County liable for Carter’s actions because they did not tie the actions to any county policy. We thus reverse the court’s grant of summary judgment to Carter but affirm its grant of summary judgment to Lawrence County.