Fifth Circuit· 7/27/1995

Grant v. Cuellar

Citations

59 F.3d 523
33 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 109
1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 19962
1995 WL 410793

How courts have described this case

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holding that while this court liberally construes pro se briefs, pro se litigants “must still brief the issues”
noting we have “considered a pro se appellant’s brief despite its technical noncompliance with the Rules of Civil Procedure when it at least argued some error on the part of the district court”
“Although we liberally construe briefs of pro se litigants . . . pro se parties must still brief the issues . . . .”
“[A] court does not ‘invent, out of whole cloth, novel arguments on behalf of a pro se plaintiff in the absence of meaningful, albeit imperfect briefing.’”
“This Court has discretion to consider a noncompliant brief, and it has allowed pro se plaintiffs to proceed when the plaintiff’s noncompliance did not prejudice the opposing party.”
finding the district court’s speculative review to be overly narrow

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Judges: Smith, Garza, Parker

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