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475 F. App'x 634

Flick v. Gonzales

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided August 20, 2012

U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2012-08-20

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bobby J. Anderson v. Alfred Hardman

Decided 2012-08-20

¶1ORDER

¶2Norman Flick appeals the district court’s dismissal of his second amended complaint brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which he alleged that 24 defendants (among them attorneys, judges, detectives, business people, and a state prosecutor) colluded to steal his property. First the court dismissed the complaint against two Indiana state court judges on the alternative grounds of judicial immunity and failure to comply with the statute of limitations. Later the court dismissed the complaint against the remaining defendants for failure to comply with federal notice-pleading standards, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a).

¶3On appeal Flick does not develop any legal argument challenging the dismissal of his action, and asserts only generally that “[RJule 8 has been sufficiently plead” under Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009), and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007). We construe pro se filings liberally, but even a pro se brief must contain more than a general assertion of error. Anderson v. Hardman, 241 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir.2001). A brief must contain “contentions and the reasons for them, with citations to the authorities and parts of the record on which the appellant relies.” Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9).

¶4DISMISSED.

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