DISCLAIMER:  The following unofficial case summaries are prepared by the clerk's office
                        as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.
112125P.pdf   03/06/2013  Minnesota Majority  v.  Joe Mansky
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-2125
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Election Laws. Claim that Minn. Stat. Sec. 211B.11, subd.
   1, banning the wearing of any political insignia to a polling place, was
   facially invalid under the First Amendment is rejected, as the law is
   viewpoint neutral and served a legitimate state interest in assuring the
   peace, order and decorum of the polling place; plaintiff failed to allege
   that Minnesota causes selective enforcement of the facially neutral statute
   and policy and therefore failed to state an equal protection claim. Judge
   Shepherd, concurring in part and dissenting in part. 
  
121415P.pdf   03/06/2013  George Donner  v.  Alcoa, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-1415
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Civil Procedure. District court abused its discretion in
   granting plaintiff a voluntary dismissal without first addressing whether
   his purported basis for adding a defendant that destroyed diversity had a
   reasonable basis in law and fact; the court's own review of the stated
   basis for the voluntary dismissal leads to the conclusion that the claim
   against the diversity-destroying defendant had no reasonable basis in law;
   order granting voluntary dismissal is reversed and the case is remanded
   for further proceedings.
  
122506U.pdf   03/06/2013  United States  v.  Chadwick Acison
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2506
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam -Before Wollman, Bowman and Gruender, 
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Sentence imposed upon the revocation of
   defendant's supervised release was substantively reasonable.