Legal Opinion
Bruce Beaudett v. City of Hampton City Attorneys A. Paul Burton and W. Stephen Moore Judge T.H. Wilson, II and Judge Nelson T. Overton
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 4, 1985No. 84-1009PublishedCited by 2,852 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
This case requires the court to consider once again the difficult problems raised when pro se litigants only vaguely identify potential legal issues in the controversy at hand. Though these litigants, cannot, of course, be expected to frame legal issues with the clarity and precision ideally evident in the work of those trained in law, neither can district courts be required to conjure up and decide issues never fairly presented to them. In this case, the district court addressed the only issue that this litigation gave it reason to consider, and we affirm the court’s…
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- Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1980
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- Wimmer v. CookCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1985
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