203027P.pdf   11/24/2021  Central Specialties, Inc.  v.  Jonathan Large
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-3027
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Grasz, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. The district court did not err in granting the 
   defendant County Engineer summary judgment based on qualified immunity on 
   plaintiff's claim that he seized plaintiff's trucks in violation of the 
   Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments as it was not clearly established at the 
   time of the incident that a county engineer tasked with oversight of all 
   county roads could not prevent trucks that he had reason to believe were 
   operating above the posted weight limit from passing over and damaging the 
   county roadway or could not call law enforcement officers to investigate 
   compliance with new, reduced weight restrictions; nor was it clearly 
   established that defendants could not change the weight restrictions in 
   response to plaintiff's stated intentions to use the road despite the fact 
   it had not been designated as a haul road or that the engineer could not 
   seek law enforcement's assistance in investigating the trucks' weights; as 
   plaintiff's complaint did not allege any policy or custom of the county 
   related to the engineer's conduct, plaintiff's claim against the county 
   must fail; because defendants were justified, as a matter of law, in 
   changing weight restrictions and stopping plaintiffs' trucks, the district 
   court properly granted summary judgment to defendants on plaintiff's state 
   law claim for tortious interference with contract; the engineer did not 
   exercise the dominion and control over plaintiff's trucks to required to 
   support a trespass to chattel claim under Minnesota law. Judge Grasz, 
   concurring in part, and dissenting in part.