Bruce Beaudett v. City of Hampton City Attorneys A. Paul Burton and W. Stephen Moore Judge T.H. Wilson, II and Judge Nelson T. Overton

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• explaining that pro se litigants still need to raise arguments at the trial level in order to preserve those issues for appeal
• discussing that “[p]rinciples requiring generous construction of pro se complaints are not, however, without limits”
• noting that the principles requiring generous construction of pro se complaints “does not require those courts to conjure up questions never squarely presented to them”
• noting that holding otherwise would “transform the district court . . . to the improper role of an advocate seeking out the strongest arguments and most successful strategies for a party”
• stating that a district court may not “conjure up questions never squarely presented”
• noting that “‘district judges are not mind readers,’ and the principle of liberal construction does not require them to ‘conjure up questions never presented to them or to construct full-blown claims from sentence fragments’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).