Bausch and Lomb_Opposition_2_RamirezWritofCert_2017-03-14

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4. That mandate stated that the basis of the dismissal was my failure to
include the record excepts.
5. I explain below why the filing was defective.
6. Prior to the filing of my initial appeal brief, I visited several times at the
clerk's window of the district court in Tampa.
7. I misunderstood, and feel that the clerk's personnel was not clear in
distinguishing, which items the clerk's office would provide to this Court
and those that I would need to provide on my own.
8. Each time that I went to the window, I understood the clerk to be saying
that because I was proceeding In Forma l'auperis, that the record
excerpts required for my appeal would be provided by that office
instead of being provided by me.
9. Twice I was told words to the effect: "they have everything that they
need for your appeal." I understood "they" to mean the eleventh Circuit
Court of Appeals.
10. On one occasion, Friday, November 16, 2012, a gentleman at the
clerk's window, Alejandro Castillo, told me to wait while he doublechecked
with the case-manager, Brenda, regarding the status of the
record on appeal.
11. When he returned to the window, again, he repeated that the record
forwarded to the 11th circuit was fine.
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