Legal Opinion
Flowers v. City of Minneapolis, Minn.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 13, 2009No. 07-2705PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.
Alfred Flowers appeals the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment in favor of Kevin Stoll and the City of Minneapolis on his several civil rights claims against both defendants, as well as his state-law defamation claim against Stoll. We affirm.
I
We restate the relevant facts as described in a previous qualified-immunity appeal, Flowers v. City of Minneapolis, 478 F.3d 869 (8th Cir.2007), and supplement those facts as necessary for this appeal. Flowers is an African-American resident of Minneapolis, and Stoll is a lieutenant in the Minneapolis Police…
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