Opinion ID: 167501
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Heading: The Intentional Tort Claims

Text: 23 The district court dismissed plaintiff's § 1983 claims pursuant to the common law non-survival rule because it found those claims most analogous to intentional tort causes of action. We agree with that conclusion. Plaintiff's § 1983 claims are premised on defendants' excessive use of force and unreasonable seizure of Blouin in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. The Supreme Court has held that such claims are necessarily predicated on intentional conduct. Brower v. County of Inyo, 489 U.S. 593, 597, 109 S.Ct. 1378, 103 L.Ed.2d 628 (1989) (holding that a Fourth Amendment violation entails governmental termination of freedom of movement through means intentionally applied ) (emphasis in original). 24 As discussed above, Oliveros's claims premised on intentional misconduct did not survive Blouin's unrelated death. Accordingly, we affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants on Oliveros's § 1983 claims. For the same reasons, we affirm the dismissal of the state law assault and battery claims.