HODAK v. CITY OF ST. PETERS

No. 07-2590.

535 F.3d 899 (2008)

Brian HODAK; Karla Hodak; H & N Planning and Control, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF ST. PETERS; Tom Brown, Mayor, Defendants-Appellants, Timothy Kaiser, Sgt., DSN 184; R Treadway, Ofcr., DSN 253l; Charles Carson, Ofcr., DSN 297, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Taylor Hamilton, argued, St. Charles, MO (Matthew J. Fairless and Nicholas J. Komoroski, on the brief), for appellant.

Larry Alan Bagsby, argued, St. Charles MO, for appellee.

Before MELLOY, GRUENDER and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.

Brian Hodak ("Brian") and H/N Planning & Control, Inc. ("H/N") sued the City of St. Peters, Missouri ("City"), and its former mayor, Tom Brown ("Brown"), under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly increasing police presence around a bar owned by H/N and ultimately revoking its liquor license in retaliation for Brian, the husband of H/N's sole shareholder, exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. A jury found for Brian and H...

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