Opinion ID: 2976401
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Text: We normally do not have jurisdiction to consider an interlocutory appeal regarding a district court’s denial of summary judgment because such a denial does not constitute a “final decision.” 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (2006). While there is an exception for denials of summary judgment to officers in their individual capacities claiming qualified immunity, Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 530 (1949), there is no exception for municipalities denied summary judgment because they are not provided qualified immunity, Swint v. Chambers County Comm’n, 514 U.S. 35, 42-43 (1995) (unanimous). We do, however, have pendent jurisdiction to review the city’s claim. “Pendent appellate jurisdiction refers to the exercise of jurisdiction over issues that ordinarily may not be reviewed on interlocutory appeal, but, may be reviewed on interlocutory appeal if those issues are inextricably intertwined with matters over which the appellate court properly and independently has jurisdiction.” Summers v. Lewis, 368 F.3d 881, 889 (6th Cir. 2004) (citations omitted). We have previously held that where we evaluate whether a constitutional violation has occurred due to a proper appeal from a denial of qualified immunity, we can also evaluate the constitutional question in regard to the city because the question is the same, and therefore the appeal is “inextricably intertwined.” See Meals v. City of Memphis, 493 F.3d 720, 727 (6th Cir. 2007).