Background
Candise Gore, proceeding pro se, appealed orders from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. The district court had accepted a magistrate judge’s recommendation, granted summary judgment to the defendants on Gore’s claims under Section nineteen hundred and eighty-three of Title forty-two of the United States Code, and remanded her state law claims to state court. The district court also denied Gore’s motion for reconsideration.
The court’s reasoning
The panel reviewed the record and found no reversible error. The court denied the appellees’ motion to strike Gore’s informal brief and granted her motion to exceed page limitations for that brief. The court also denied Gore’s motion for counsel and dispensed with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions were adequately presented in the materials before the court.
What it means going forward
The ruling confirms that summary judgment was properly granted against the plaintiff on federal civil rights claims and that state law claims must be pursued in state court. It also establishes that the court will not appoint counsel for pro se appellants in this instance.
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