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Civil Rights: Pro Se Claims-Dismissal
Staff Report//March 13, 2020
Where appellants challenged the dismissal of their pro se complaint raising federal and state law claims, the court properly dismissed the federal claims, so the judgment is affirmed in part, and the order remanded the state law claims is vacated.
Affirmed; vacated.
Lougin v. City of St. Louis (MLW No. 74663/Case No. 19-2469 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) (Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri.
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