Opinion ID: 2745906
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Heading: The Rice Plaintiffs’ Claims against Graves

Text: The Rice Plaintiffs devote only one paragraph of their brief to their claims against Graves. Essentially they argue that, because the district court erred in finding Arnold was not liable, the district also erred in finding that Graves was not liable. Graves argues the inverse: because Arnold was not found liable for any of the state law claims and Arnold was entitled to qualified immunity, Graves cannot be held liable. We hold the district court correctly granted Graves’s motion for summary judgment. The Rice Plaintiffs offer only one argument for reversing the district court: because we should reverse the district court on the claims against Arnold, we should also reverse and remand the claims against Graves. But, we have already held that the district court was correct in granting summary judgment for Arnold on all of the federal and state claims asserted against him. And as the Rice Plaintiffs’ argument on appeal demonstrates, their only theory for Graves’s liability rests on the impropriety of Arnold’s actions. Thus, because we affirm the district court’s decision with respect to the claims against Arnold, we also affirm the district court’s decision with respect to the claims against Graves.