Joshua Tolsma v. City of Seattle

MEMORANDUM

Joshua Tolsma appeals from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging Fourth Amendment violations, and state false arrest and malicious prosecution claims, arising from two unrelated arrests in 2007 and 2008. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Blankenhorn v. City of Orange, 485 F.3d 463, 470 (9th Cir.2007). We may affirm on any ground supported by the record. Barry v. Fowler, 902 F.2d 770 , 772 n. 4 (9th Cir.1990). We affirm.

Summary judgment on Tolsma’s claims related to the 2007 arrest was proper because Tolsma failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether the officers lacked probable cause for the arrest and prosecution. See Blankenhorn, 485 F.3d at 471 (“The test for whether probable cause exists is whether at the moment of arrest the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the arresting officers and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent [person] in believing that the petitioner had committed or was committing an offense.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); Hanson v. Snohomish, 121 Wash.2d 552 , 852 P.2d…