141382P.pdf   05/29/2015  Trinity Lutheran Church  v.  Sara Pauley
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1382
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Melloy and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Constitutional law. In an action alleging defendant's denial 
   of plaintiff's request to participate in a scrap rubber program violated 
   the church's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, the district court did 
   not err in dismissing the church's federal constitutional claims for 
   failure to state a claim as Article I, Section 7 of the Missouri 
   Constitution does not conflict with either the First Amendment or the 
   Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; the district court 
   did not err in dismissing plaintiff's claim that the defendant's actions 
   violated the second clause of Article I, Section 7 as the church's own 
   pleadings demonstrated that approval of their application would provide 
   the church with impermissible aid within the meaning of Missouri law; 
   denial of post-judgment motion to amend the complaint affirmed. Judge 
   Gruender, concurring in part and dissenting in part.