Legal Opinion
Timothy Galarnyk v. Tom Fraser
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 7, 2012No. 11-3065PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
On August 9, 2007, Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) Captain Thomas Fraser detained Timothy Galarnyk at the site of the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Galarnyk appeals the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment on Galarnyk’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 false arrest and First Amendment retaliatory arrest claims against Captain Fraser. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On August 1, 2007, the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, tragically collapsed into the Mississippi River. Several federal and state agencies responded, including the United States Occupational…
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