State Ex Rel. Beaulieu v. City of Mounds View

How later courts described this case

• holding official immunity is available in claims of discrimination if plaintiff fails to establish his treatment by defendants "was so at variance with what would reasonably be anticipated, absent racial discrimination that racial discrimination is the probable explanation"
• explaining that the official immunity analysis under Minnesota state law is “less of a subjective inquiry into malice, which was traditionally favored at common law, and more of an objective inquiry into the legal reasonableness of an official’s actions”
• explaining that, in determining whether a party acted in good faith or bad faith, a false statement made by the defendant may be evidence of bad faith
• upholding the stop of a vehicle that was being driven in a direction away from the scene of a recent armed robbery and whose occupant’s race and clothing matched the suspect’s description

Written by the judges who cited it.