# Phillip Ransom v. Anthony Grisafe

> Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · June 22, 2015 · 790 F.3d 804

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9808541

## Case

- **Full name:** Phillip RANSOM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony GRISAFE, Both in His Official and His Individual Capacity; John Randle, Both in His Official and His Individual Capacity; Tyrone Phillips; Angela Conaway-Dawdy, Both in Her Official and Her Individual Capacity; Thomas Dearing, Defendants-Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- **Decided:** June 22, 2015
- **Citations:** 790 F.3d 804; 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10441; 2015 WL 3824763
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Riley
- **Judges:** Riley, Colloton, Kelly
- **Cited by:** 20 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9808541

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding officers immune as long as they had arguable probable cause, a mistaken but objectively reasonable belief that there had been a criminal offense.
- noting that “a grazing shot or piece of glass” arguably constituted a seizure

## Opinion text

RILEY, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I fully join the majority opinion but write separately to reiterate the court’s direction in Robbins v. Becker, 715 F.3d 691 (8th Cir.2013), and other cases, that district courts must carefully conduct “a thorough qualified immunity analysis” before denying or granting summary judgment on this issue, including “findings of fact and conclusions of law, similar by *815 analogy to [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure] 52(a)(2),” sufficient for our court effectively to “fulfill our function of review.” Id. at 694 & n. 2 (quotations omitted). To be thorough, the determination may not be “ ‘abbreviated’ ” or “ ‘terse’ ” and must lay out the fact findings and law “ ‘step-by-step.’ ” Jones v. McNeese, 675 F.3d 1158, 1163 (8th Cir.2012) (quoting O’Neil v. City of Iowa City, Iowa, 496 F.3d 915, 918 (8th Cir.2007)).

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