Edwards v. County of San Diego

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiff-Appellant Tamye Edwards appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment and the dismissal of her suit with prejudice. As Edwards’s counsel conceded at oral argument, only one of the myriad of claims raised in her brief has merit: whether the First Amended Complaint sufficiently raised a claim under the California Constitution.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) states that a complaint only requires a “short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.” This court has repeatedly held that “ ‘[a] party need not plead specific…