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062021P.pdf 02/26/2007 Richard Osborne v. Arlyn Grussing
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-2021
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Lay and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. A plaintiff who seeks relief from valid adverse
regulatory action on the ground it was unconstitutional retaliation for
First Amendment-protected speech must make the same showing that is
required to establish a claim of selective prosecution - that he has been
singled out for prosecution while others similarly situated have not been
prosecuted for conduct similar to that for which he was prosecuted and
that the government's discriminatory selection of him for prosecution was
based upon his exercise of his First Amendment right to free speech;
applying that standard here, plaintiffs failed to show that the defendants
selectively enforces the zoning ordinance in question.