Case Name: Johnathan Mark RUIZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOWN OF INDIAN SHORES, FLORIDA, a Florida municipality, et al., Defendants, John P. Wiseman, Officer, in his individual capacity, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-07-30
Citations: 390 F. App'x 864
Docket Number: No. 09-15316
Parties: Johnathan Mark RUIZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOWN OF INDIAN SHORES, FLORIDA, a Florida municipality, et al., Defendants, John P. Wiseman, Officer, in his individual capacity, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 390
Pages: 864–865

Head Matter:
Johnathan Mark RUIZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOWN OF INDIAN SHORES, FLORIDA, a Florida municipality, et al., Defendants, John P. Wiseman, Officer, in his individual capacity, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 09-15316.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
July 30, 2010.
Thomas P. Scarritt, Jr., John J. Ding-felder, Scarritt Law Group, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Matthew P. Farmer, Farmer & Fitzgerald, P.A., Tampa, FL, Guillermo A. Ruiz, Saint Petersburg, FL, for Plaintiff-Appel-lee.
Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Defendant/Appellant Police Officer John P. Wiseman brings this interlocutory appeal from the district court's order denying his motion for summary judgment based upon qualified immunity. Plaintiff/Appellee Jon Mark Ruiz sued Wise-man, among others, claiming that Wise-man violated Ruiz's Fourth Amendment rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by falsely arresting him and by using excessive force during the arrest.
After reviewing the record and reading the parties' briefs, we conclude that the district court erred in not granting Wise-man qualified immunity on the false arrest claim but properly denied Wiseman qualified immunity on the excessive force claim.
The record clearly demonstrates that, at the very least, Wiseman had arguable probable cause to arrest Ruiz for a violation of the Town of Indian Shores' public consumption ordinance. The Supreme Court has held that "[i]f an officer has probable cause to believe that an individual has committed even a very minor criminal offense in his presence, he may, without violating the Fourth Amendment, arrest the offender." Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, 532 U.S. 318, 354, 121 S.Ct. 1536, 1557, 149 L.Ed.2d 549 (2001). That is the situation we have here and the district court erred in not granting qualified immunity to Wiseman on this claim.
Concerning the excessive force claim, we agree with the district court that the Graham factors supported Ruiz. The present case is on "all-fours" with our recent decision in Brown v. City of Huntsville, Alabama, 608 F.3d 724 (11th Cir.2010), where we reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of a law enforcement officer on an excessive force claim because his actions arguably constituted excessive force.
Accordingly, we affirm the district court's denial of qualified immunity to Wiseman on the excessive force claim.
AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED.
. Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 395, 109 S.Ct. 1865, 1872, 104 L.Ed.2d 443 (1989).