# State Ex Rel. Beaulieu v. City of Mounds View

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · June 30, 1994 · 518 N.W.2d 567

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9735252

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Minnesota, by David BEAULIEU, Commissioner, Department of Human Rights, Respondent, v. CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW, Minnesota, Et Al., Petitioners, Appellants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** June 30, 1994
- **Citations:** 518 N.W.2d 567; 1994 Minn. LEXIS 489; 1994 WL 314631
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Coyne
- **Judges:** Tomljanovich, Simonett, Coyne, Wahl, Gardebring, Wahl'S
- **Cited by:** 95 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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
- holding analysis of "malicious wrong" requires objective inquiry into legal reasonableness of official's actions rather than subjective inquiry into malice

## Opinion text

COYNE, Justice
(concurring specially).
I join in Justice Simonett’s special concurrence.

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