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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Johnston grants the Parkersburg mayor, its former police chief and various city officials' motion for summary judgment in the small vehicle repair shop owner's suit claiming they violated his civil rights through a series of citations and arrests related to the operation of his business to impugn his credibility as a write-in candidate for mayor. The arrests made of the repair shop owner were reasonable since they were done during the city’s enforcement of an order it received in Wood County Circuit Court compelling him to clean up an adjacent lot where he kept cars awaiting repair. Since the city officials did not violate any of the repair shop owner's constitutional rights, the court dismisses his state law claims of abuse of process, battery and tortious interference with a business relationship.