Miller v. Fallon

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that public employees are not covered by the LMRA and that dismissal on this basis is properly categorized as a failure to state a claim rather than lack of jurisdiction
• holding that “a ‘general and conclusory allegation’ of a municipal policy or custom fails to state a plausible claim.” (quoting Littlejohn v. City of New York, 795 F.3d 297, 315 (2d Cir. 2015)
• explaining that issues raised below but not pursued in opening brief on appeal were abandoned
• explaining that a pro se litigant abandons issues and arguments that are not raised in an opening brief
• noting that issues “not address[ed] in 10 [an] opening brief . . . are . . . abandoned”
• noting that courts will read pro se complaints “to raise the strongest arguments they suggest” (quoting McLeod v. Jewish Guild for the Blind, 864 F.3d 154, 156 (2d Cir. 2017))

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