Brittingham v. Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board

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• holding liberal construction of the pleading requirements for pro se litigants does not equate with liberal deadlines
• determining that a single decision, “even if erroneous, would not support the inference that the County had a custom or policy” in place
• stating that the plaintiff’s § 1983 claims 11 against the sheriff in his official capacity stated claims against the county even though the county itself was not sued and proceeding to address the merits of the constitutional claims against the county
• “[a] single decision, even if erroneous, would not support the inference that the County had a custom or policy”
• “While we have stated that we read the word ‘mistake’ in Rule 15(c) liberally, we do not read the word ‘mistake’ to mean ‘lack of knowledge.’”
• “If the appellant intends to urge on appeal that a finding or conclusion is unsupported by the evidence or is contrary to the evidence, the appellant must include in the record a transcript of all evidence relevant to that finding or conclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).