How have the courts treated a plaintiff's pleading in pleading in favour of the pro se litigant?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Brazil v. U.S. Dept. of Navy, 66 F.3d 193 (9th Cir. 1995):

Brazil answered by checking selection B--"Termination of my employment." By this he could have meant revocation of his security clearance, as no other choice seems to better capture that possibility. He could also have meant that he was indeed complaining of his final termination. Finally, he could have intended to complain of both actions. If we were forced to judge from the rather ambiguous answer to question Four alone, we might liberally construe Brazil's pleading in favor of the pro se litigant, United States v. Ten Thousand Dollars, 860 F.2d 1511, 1513 (9th Cir.1988), and find that he had intended to complain of his ultimate termination. However, we do not decide the question in a vacuum; the pleadings as a whole lead us to a different conclusion.

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