Opinion ID: 38422
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: material fact, summary judgment was appro-

Text: Pending before this court is McAdams’s priate. “Motion for Transcript,” which requests an order directing the city to provide her with a Similarly, McAdams failed to enter into the copy of the transcript of her grievance hearing record any evidence supporting her claims of held by the city council. We treat this motion deprivation of her Fifth Amendment or due as tantamount to a motion to compel. This process rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Those court is not the correct forum in which to claims were also, therefore, properly disconduct discovery. The proper method for missed. pursuing this evidence would have been the filing of a similar motion in the district court On appeal, McAdams argues that her failbefore the discovery cut-off deadline. See ure to respond to repeated discovery requests FED. R. CIV. P. 37(a); 16(b). A court of ap- and to the city’s motion for summary judgment peals will not consider evidence not presented was the result of her eviction from her home to the district court. Stults v. Conoco, Inc., 76 and therefore constituted excusable neglect.3 F.3d 651, 657 (5th Cir. 1996). McAdams’s Nevertheless, the record reflects that either the plaintiff or someone else named “McAdams” signed for all of the relevant correspondence, 1 Although McAdadams’s complaint did not including the Joint Case Management Plan, explicitly reference the operative statutes, the city and the court have interpreted McAdams’s com- plaint as alleging violations of title VII, 42 U.S.C. 3 § 2000e-(a)(1), and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. There is no evidence in the record to confirm this claim, and it does not appear that McAdams 2 A panel of this court denied the city’s motion ever raised this issue with the district court before to dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction. entry of judgment. 2 discovery requests, and motion for summary judgment. In the end, regardless of her lack of response to correspondence, McAdams never provided any evidence to support her claims. The judgment is AFFIRMED, and all pend- ing motions are DENIED. 3