091209P.pdf   09/01/2010  Thomas J. Gallagher  v.  Steve Magner
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1209
                          and No:  09-1528
                          and No:  09-1579
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Fair Housing Act. City's housing code enforcement
   activities did not give rise to a disparate treatment claim under the Fair
   Housing Act as the evidence was insufficient to create a reasonable
   inference of discriminatory intent; the program did have a disparate
   impact on racial minorities, and the district court erred in granting the
   City summary judgment on this claim; no error in granting the City
   summary judgment on the remainder of plaintiffs' Fair Housing Act
   claims; there was insufficient evidence of discriminatory intent to support
   civil rights claims under Sections 1981, 1982 and 1985; plaintiffs failed
   to establish a Section 1983 claim, a due process claim or claims under the
   Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment; RICO claim rejected; state law tort
   claims were properly dismissed; district court did not abuse its discretion
   by denying plaintiffs' motion for sanctions for spoilation of evidence as
   the City did not intentionally destroy or withhold evidence in an attempt
   to suppress the truth.