Opinion ID: 78554
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Heading: Reinstatement of Other State Law Claims

Text: As a final matter, Myers asks us to instruct the district court to reinstate a variety of state law claims that were dismissed in April of 2005. While we agree that federal district courts in removal cases must remand, rather than dismiss, state claims over which they decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction, see Cook v. Sheriff of Monroe County, 402 F.3d 1092, 1123 (11th Cir.2005); Lewis v. City of St. Petersburg, 260 F.3d 1260, 1267 (11th Cir.2001), Myers neglected to raise this issue when this case first came before this Court. Nearly five years have passed since these claims were dismissed, and we decline now to upset the decision of a lower court that should have been challenged before us more than two and a half years ago. Cf. Nationalist Movement v. City of Cumming, Ga., 92 F.3d 1135, 1138-39 (11th Cir.1996); Caban-Wheeler v. Elsea, 71 F.3d 837, 842 (11th Cir.1996); Martin v. Atlantic Coast Line R.R. Co., 289 F.2d 414, 416 (5th Cir.1961). Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. AFFIRMED.