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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.