Legal Opinion
Hodak v. City of St. Peters
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2008No. 07-2590PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Brian Hodak (“Brian”) and H/N Planning & Control, Inc. (“H/N”) sued the City of St. Peters, Missouri (“City”), and its former mayor, Tom Brown (“Brown”), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly increasing police presence around a bar owned by H/N and ultimately revoking its liquor license in retaliation for Brian, the husband of B/N’s sole shareholder, exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. A jury found for Brian and H/N, awarding no damages to Brian and $375,000 in compensatory damages and $1,000,000 in punitive damages to H/N. The district court granted…
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