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023073P.pdf   05/02/2003  Joseph Washington  v.  Normandy Fire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-3073
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Civil case - civil rights. Giving of a business judgment instruction 
   in First Amendment retaliation claim was not error; exclusion 
   of testimony district court found would be cumulative was not 
   an abuse of its discretion; district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in permitting defendants to file a motion to dismiss 
   after the scheduling deadline as the basis for the motion only 
   became evident after the deadline had passed.