122843P.pdf   09/25/2013  Greg Kroupa  v.  Peter Nielsen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2843
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Bright and Bye, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Injunctions. In action alleging defendants violated 
   plaintiff's daughter's civil rights by barring her from further showing of 
   livestock at 4-H exhibitions based on a decision that she had 
   misrepresented the ownership of her winning swine entry at the 2011 South 
   Dakota State Fair, the district court did not err in granting plaintiff 
   injunctive relief as plaintiff established: (1) a likelihood of the 
   success on the merits of the claim that the daughter had a protected 
   liberty or property interest in protecting her reputation, her immediate 
   interest in training livestock and winning prizes and her future interest 
   in a career in agriculture and (2)that defendants' actions had deprived 
   her of those interests without due process; further, the district court 
   did not err in finding a threat of irreparable injury, particularly to the 
   girl's reputation, and that the balance of the equities and the public 
   interest both supported the issuance of the injunction. Judge Bye, 
   dissenting.