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111381P.pdf   12/09/2011  Paul C. Stepnes  v.  Peter Ritschel
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1381
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - civil rights. Officer had probable cause to arrest plaintiff
   based on his belief that plaintiff was running an illegal lottery; plaintiff 
   did not state a claim for excessive force as he produced no evidence that he
   suffered anything beyond minor injuries during handcuffing; search of
   plaintiff's home did not exceed the scope of the warrant; with respect to
   plaintiff's defamation claims against CBS and a media defendant, the
   district court correctly determined that plaintiff was a limited purpose
   public figure, and the court did not err in finding that the allegedly
   defamatory statements were not made with reckless disregard of the truth;
   district court did not abuse its substantial discretion in denying plaintiff's
   spoilation of evidence claim against CBS.