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David Wayne McCALL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott PETERS, etc., et al., Defendants, Scott Peters, Detective, Coppell Police Department; Michael D. Scott, Sergeant, Coppell Police Department; City of Coppell, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 03-10550.
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Decided Aug. 18, 2004.
    David Wayne McCall, Beeville, TX, pro se.
    Darrell Gerard-Marc Noga, Roberts & Smaby, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, and PICKERING, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

David Wayne McCall, Texas prisoner number 876980, appeals from an order of the district court granting summary judgment to defendants Scott Peters, Michael D. Scott, and the City of Coppell in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo. Cousin v. Small, 325 F.3d 627, 637 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 826, 124 S.Ct. 181, 157 L.Ed.2d 48 (2003).

McCall argues that Peters and Scott lacked probable cause to arrest him. He asserts that they knowingly presented an arrest warrant affidavit that contained false and misleading information and omitted exculpatory facts. He argues that the district court failed to consider his summary judgment evidence and resolved disputed issues of fact. We conclude from the totality of the circumstances in the summary judgment record that Peters and Scott had probable cause to seek a warrant for McCall’s arrest and that, even setting aside the allegedly false information in the warrant affidavit, probable cause is evident. See Freeman v. County of Bexar, 210 F.3d 550, 553-54 (5th Cir.2000); Sorenson v. Ferrie, 134 F.3d 325, 328 (5th Cir.1998). Therefore, the district court’s dismissal of the false arrest claim on grounds of qualified immunity is affirmed.

McCall also argues that Peters committed perjury at an examining trial. However, he has not sufficiently briefed the issue, and the perjury claim is deemed abandoned. See Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 224-25 (5th Cir.1993); see also Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9)(A). McCall’s civil conspiracy claim also fails because he has not shown an actual violation of his rights or an agreement by the defendants to commit an illegal act. See Hale v. Townley, 45 F.3d 914, 920 (5th Cir.1995); Arsenaux v. Roberts, 726 F.2d 1022, 1024 (5th Cir.1982).

McCall argues that the City of Coppell had a long history and custom of allowing its officers to make illegal arrests. Because McCall failed to show that his arrest was illegal, he cannot show that an official policy or custom caused the violation of his constitutional rights. See Monell v. Department of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658, 690, 98 S.Ct. 2018, 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978); Piotrowski v. City of Houston, 237 F.3d 567, 578-79 (5th Cir.2001). McCall’s state law claims are deemed abandoned for failure to brief them. See Cinel v. Connick, 15 F.3d 1338, 1345 (5th Cir.1994).

McCall argues that he was not given an opportunity for discovery because he was misled by the wording of the district court’s protective order. We have already rejected a similar claim by McCall in an earlier appeal where we held that the protective order was clearly written and would not be confusing or misleading to a lay person. See McCall v. Peters, 74 Fed.Appx. 389 (5th Cir.2003)(unpublished).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       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.