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082708P.pdf   07/06/2009  William Cavataio  v.  City of Bella Villa
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2708
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. District court did not err in concluding
   defendant police chief's conduct during plaintiff William Cavataio's
   arrest was objectively reasonable as a matter of law and did not constitute
   excessive force; various evidentiary challenges rejected; district court did
   not err in granting summary judgment for the chief on plaintiff Mary Lou
   Cavataio's substantive due process claims as her allegations did not meet
   the "shocks the conscience" threshold; without a constitutional violation
   by individual officers, there cannot be municipal liability, and the district
   court did not err in granting the city's motion for summary judgment.