Meadowbriar Home for Children, Inc. v. Gunn

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• stating that a plaintiff must plead facts to support the existence of a policy or custom
• finding that district court’s application of Schultea’s pleading Elliot’s pleading requirement for individual standards harmless. See Brandley v. Keeshan, 64 defendants survived both Leatherman and Schul- F.3d 196, 200 (5th Cir. 1995). In this case, tea
• reversing a district court’s grant of fees against a non-attor- ney because “[u]nder [section] 1927, expenses, costs, and attorneys’ fees may only be awarded against attorneys or those admitted to practice before the court”
• “Under § 1927, expenses, costs, and attorneys’ fees may only be awarded against attorneys or those admitted to practice before the court.”
• court “abuses its discretion if it bases its decision on an erroneous view of the law or on a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence”
• court “abuses its discretion if it bases its decision on an erroneous view of the law or on a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence”

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