He was taken to the York County Detention Center in Rock Hill, South Carolina shortly after midnight, where detention officers booked him and the magistrate set his bond. Clinton was charged with failure to stop for a blue light and with an improper start. On the evening of January 25, 1992, deputies from the York County Sheriff's Department arrested the Plaintiff's decedent, Chad Edward Clinton ("Clinton"), in Clover, South Carolina after a brief automobile chase. Viewed in the light most favorable to the Plaintiff, the facts of this case are as follows. The nonmoving party, here the Plaintiff, must then go beyond the pleadings and designate "specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial." Fed.R.Civ.P. When the defendant is the moving party and the plaintiff has the ultimate burden of proof on an issue, the defendant must identify the parts of the record that demonstrate the plaintiff lacks sufficient evidence. The party moving for summary judgment has the burden of showing the absence of a genuine issue of material fact, and the court must view the evidence before it and the inferences to be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. It is well-established that summary judgment should be granted "only when it is clear that there is no dispute concerning either the facts of the controversy or the inferences to be drawn from those facts." Pulliam Inv. Summary judgment is appropriate "if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law." Fed.R.Civ.P. Accordingly, the court remands the remaining statelaw causes of action to the Court of Common Pleas for York County, South Carolina, from where the case was removed. As to the Plaintiff's claims under South Carolina statutory and common law, which are before the court under its supplemental jurisdiction, the court has decided not to exercise continuing jurisdiction, having dismissed all of the claims over which the court has original jurisdiction. For the reasons stated in open court, and as further explained in this opinion, the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment is granted as to the Plaintiff's claims under 42 U.S.C. This order serves to memorialize the court's ruling. The court heard oral argument on the motion on and announced its ruling at the conclusion of the hearing. This matter is presently before the court on the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment as to all of the Plaintiff's causes of action. Millar, McKinney, Givens & Millar, P.A., Rock Hill, SC, for defendant. *582 *583 Leland Bland Greeley, Poore and Greeley, Rock Hill, SC, for plaintiff. Eaton, Sheriff of York County, Defendants. Byers, in their respective individual capacities as Officers of the York County Detention Center and George M. Donna Gayle CLINTON, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Chad Edward Clinton, Plaintiff,ĬOUNTY OF YORK, a political subdivision of the State of South Carolina Danny Edward Stacks D.
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