Opinion ID: 2973231
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Heading: State Civil-Conspiracy Claim

Text: Finally, Golden appeals the district court’s dismissal without prejudice of his pendent state civil-conspiracy claim due to the lack of a viable federal claim. District courts have the discretion to dismiss pendent state-law claims where all federal claims have been dismissed. 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c)(3). Because we are not remanding any of plaintiff’s constitutional claims for further 10 consideration, there is “no utility in sending back to the district court a single issue that turns upon state law and which would be better resolved by the courts” of the state in question. DePiero v. Macedonia, 180 F.3d 770, 790 (6th Cir. 1999). The district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to hear Golden’s state civil-conspiracy claim.