Legal Opinion
Mertik v. Blalock
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1993No. 91-4071PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOINER, Senior District Judge.
Plaintiff, Barbara Mertik, appeals the dismissal of her federal civil rights claim pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. Plaintiff’s suit was removed from state court to the *1356United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Following the dismissal of the one count asserting federal constitutional claims, the district court remanded the balance of the suit to state court. This appeal concerns only the propriety of the dismissal of the federal claims. For the reasons that…
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