Legal Opinion
Stepnes v. Ritschel
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 9, 2011No. 11-1381PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Minneapolis Police Sergeant Peter Ritschel arrested Paul Stepnes without a warrant for running a contest which allegedly violated Minnesota gambling laws. Ritschel later obtained a search warrant and seized several items from the house where Stepnes was running the contest. Reporter Esme Murphy broadcast a news story about the contest and Stepnes’s arrest on WCCO TV, a local CBS television station. Stepnes sued Ritschel and the city of Minneapolis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for civil rights violations during the arrest and search, and Murphy and CBS for defamation. Both…
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