Patricia L. Woods v. Robert Storms, et al.

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT Appellant Petitions for a WRIT OF CERTIORARI from denial of an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. This is a case of government corruption where the Plaintiff/Appellant was denied her federal due process rights because of unlawful acts by state attorneys and others preventing a fair administrative hearing under her contract with Service Employees International Union, (SEIU-Local 1000), and under the Ralph C. Dills Act, (Dills Act), Government Code section 3512 et seq. Petitioner seeks review because the Ninth Circuit committed a reversible error by affirming the district court’s decision dismissing the Pro Se Petitioner’s complaint with prejudice, after refusing to grant leave to amend the complaint to allege new evidence in support of equitable tolling defenses to the applicable statutes of limitations, thereby violating proper standards for de novo review while failing to apply the liberal pleading standards of Rule 12(b)(6) for pro se claimants, treating the statutes of limitations applicable to her federal statutory claims as jurisdictional rather than procedural bars that could be tolled and/or waived by equitable defenses. Petitioner seeks a remand to the U.S. District Court, to address the circuit split between the Ninth Circuit Court and other circuits related to equitable n