Opinion ID: 167719
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Pendant State Law Claims

Text: 82 Tal argues the district court improperly declined to exercise its pendant jurisdiction over the state law claims of fraudulent condemnation and tortious interference with business, because they alleged violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Conversely, both Douglas and the City argue the tort claim should be dismissed with prejudice. Douglas argues the tort claim is barred by the statute of limitations. The City argues it is barred by the Oklahoma Governmental Tort Claims Act. We need not decide these issues. 83 The district court was precluded from considering the Appellants' Fifth Amendment claim by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. As for the other state law tort claims, we note that [t]he Fourteenth Amendment [is not] a font of tort law. Daniels v. Williams, 474 U.S. 327, 332, 106 S.Ct. 662, 88 L.Ed.2d 662 (1986). Additionally, the court was not required to consider either the merits or the procedural issues attendant to the state law claims. Because the district court properly dismissed all of Appellants' federal claims, it was well within its discretion under 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c)(3) to decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiffs' state-law claims. Exum v. United States Olympic Comm., 389 F.3d 1130, 1138-39 (10th Cir.2004); Lancaster v. Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 5, 149 F.3d 1228, 1236 (10th Cir.1998). The court, therefore, did not err in dismissing the state interference with business claims without prejudice.