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111952P.pdf   05/03/2012  Turkish Coalition of America  v.  Robert Bruininks
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1952
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - First Amendment. Plaintiff Cingilli failed to plead facts sufficient to demonstrate an objectively chilling effect and had not established standing to pursue a First Amendment claim; the Coalition had standing to pursue its claim that defendants' action in labeling its website as "unreliable" and placing it on a list which included Holocaust denial sites violated its First Amendment rights and injured its reputation through stigmatizing government speech; however, the Coalition failed to state a First Amendment claim and the district court did not err in dismissing its claim under Rule 12(b)(6) as the defendants' actions did not obstruct student access to the materials or make the materials substantially unavailable at the school; defendants' website's statements regarding the deaths of Armenians during World War I were either true or subjective opinion statements and therefore were not actionable under Minnesota law governing defamation; nor could the statements be regarded as actionable allegations of scholastic fraud.