IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
FILED
September 22, 2008
No. 07-40610 Charles R. Fulbruge III
Clerk
ARNULFO ANDRES LOPEZ
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
KENNETH MACK, Individually and in His Capacity as Chief of Police of the
Galveston Police Department; GALVESTON POLICE DEPARTMENT; CITY
OF GALVESTON; OFFICER CLAYTON POPE; OFFICER MATTHEW
WHITING; SERGEANT JOEL CALDWELL; OFFICER ARCHIE CHAPMAN;
UNKNOWN GALVESTON POLICE OFFICER, also known as Whitey
Defendants-Appellees
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Texas
3:06-CV-371
Before GARZA and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and MILLS,* District Judge.
PER CURIAM:**
Plaintiff-Appellant Arnulfo Andres Lopez (“Lopez”) appeals from a
December 13, 2006, Memorandum Opinion and Order of the District Court and
an April 11, 2007, Memorandum Opinion and Order of the District Court.
*
Chief Judge of the Northern District of Mississippi, sitting by designation.
**
Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.
R. 47.5.4.
No. 07-40610
Together, these orders granted summary judgment for Defendants-Appellees
and dismissed all of Lopez’s federal law claims and all of Lopez’s state law claims
except for one state law malicious prosecution claim, which the District Court
remanded to state court. We have reviewed the briefs, the entire record on
appeal, and the applicable law and have heard oral arguments of counsel.
Finding no error in the District Court’s disposition of the case, we AFFIRM
essentially for the reasons stated by the District Court in its written opinions.
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