Lvmpd

MEMORANDUM

In this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , Officer Russell Cragin and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (“LVMPD”) appeal the district court’s denial of summary judgment. Officer Cragin challenges the district court’s denial of his defense of qualified immunity. Because Officer Cragin is entitled to qualified immunity on Gonzalez’s Fourth Amendment arrest claim, we reverse the denial of summary judgment. Officer Cra-gin and LVMPD also ask us to exercise pendent jurisdiction over the district court’s denial of summary judgment as to Gonzalez’s other claims under section 1983 and state tort law. We do not have jurisdiction to review the district court’s rulings as to those claims, and we therefore dismiss the appeal in part.

We have jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from a denial of the defense of qualified immunity “to the extent that it turns on an issue of law.” Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 530 , 105 S.Ct. 2806 , 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985). Here, the district court’s ruling turned entirely on the legal question of whether Officer Cragin had probable cause to arrest Gonzalez based on the information contained in the arrest warrant and the…