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BEAUDETT v. CITY OF HAMPTON

No. 84-1009.

775 F.2d 1274 (1985)

Bruce BEAUDETT, Appellant, v. CITY OF HAMPTON; City Attorneys A. Paul Burton and W. Stephen Moore; Judge T.H. Wilson, II; and Judge Nelson T. Overton, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha J. Tomich, Appellate Law Fellow, Washington, D.C. (Stephen A. Goldblatt; Nancy E. Hezlep; Steven L. Zelinger; Appellate Litigation Clinical Program, Georgetown University Law Center on brief), for appellant.

Thomas E. Glascock, Hampton, Va., Linwood Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Glascock, Martin & Graves, Hampton, Va., Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., Robert B. Condon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, SPROUSE and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

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...

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