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The plaintiff-professor, who excessively fraternized with students and clashed with her peers, has failed to show that the defendant-college retaliated against her – for helping students file Title IX complaints and for seeking accommodation for her disability – when it declined to renew her one-year contract and then, reacting to threats from plaintiff, fired her.
Even if petitioner’s objection to the magistrate judge’s recommended decision repeated his previous arguments, his objection was sufficiently specific because it alerted the district court that he believed the magistrate judge had erred in recommending dismissal of his claims. The pro se construction owed to petitioner makes his grounds even clearer. By adopting the magistrate
Even though plaintiff’s decedent, an ERISA plan participant, was incapacitated by illness during the period when he could have converted his employer-provided life insurance policy to an individual policy, and even though the participant tried to make the conversion 26 days after the conversion period ended, the defendant-plan administrator did not abuse its discretion in .