Barbara Rodgers v. City of Des Moines Ronald Wakeham

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• holding that district court properly refused to consider unpled allegations raised in a response to a summary judgment motion
• stating that parties are “not entitle[d] to manufacture claims, which were not pled, late into the litigation for the purpose of avoiding summary judgment”
• finding that “the district court properly refused to consider unpled allegations” on a motion for summary judgment
• noting it is not the district court’s responsibility to sift through the record to see if, perhaps, there is an issue of fact
• affirming district court’s refusal to consider allegations not pled in the complaint when plaintiff never sought leave to amend her complaint
• “Without some guidance, we will not mine a summary judgment record searching for nuggets of factual disputes to gild a party’s arguments.”

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