Boyd v. Tennessee State University

MEMORANDUM

WISEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs’ third amended complaint invokes this court’s pendent jurisdiction 1 to hear a state claim for malicious harassment. 2 Aside from this jurisdictional allusion, however, there is no specific cause of action asserted for malicious harassment. It is clear, nevertheless, that such a cause is intended; indeed, plaintiffs previously filed a motion to amend their complaint so that they could add this claim. To the defendants’ credit, they do not bother with the pro forma argument that this claim should be barred for lack of specific pleading. See…