Opinion ID: 168392
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Heading: Plaintiff's Alternative Request for Leave to Amend

Text: 25 Ms. Anderson included a request for leave to amend in her response to defendant's motion to dismiss. Aplt.App. at 72-73. She attempted to preserve this request in her response brief before this court. Aplee. Br. at 6-7. She essentially seeks to amend her complaint to clarify allegations of procedural due process violations that were not well-stated in the complaint, id. at 7, and which became more apparent following the limited discovery that took place after Officer Blake filed his motion to dismiss, id. at 8-10. 26 The attempted procedural due process claim rests on Officer Blake's alleged deviation from the City of Norman's internal disclosure procedures and the Oklahoma Open Records Act. Id. at 9. There is no reference to either the internal procedures or the state statute in the complaint. It appears that Ms. Anderson only considered the procedural due process claim after Officer Blake filed his motion to dismiss. Id. at 7. 27 As a general rule an appellate court does not consider an issue not passed upon below. Lowe v. Town of Fairland, 143 F.3d 1378, 1381 (10th Cir.1998). The district court did not rule on the request for leave to amend. Because we affirm the order of the district court denying qualified immunity, we need not rule on the request for leave to amend. Instead, we consider the request to be still pending in the district court, which can address the matter and decide whether to grant leave to amend or to determine that an independent claim for procedural due process was sufficiently pled in the initial complaint. 28 AFFIRMED.