Document Info

DocketNumber: 20-12350

Filed Date: 2/24/2021

Status: Non-Precedential

Modified Date: 2/24/2021

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    [DO NOT PUBLISH]
    IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
    ________________________
    No. 20-12350
    Non-Argument Calendar
    ________________________
    D.C. Docket No. 5:20-cv-00077-TES
    RHONDA REID,
    Plaintiff-Appellant,
    versus
    CANDACE LAWSON,
    Greene County Tax Commissioner,
    CAMILLE HOPE,
    Bankruptcy Trustee,
    STEPHEN BRADLEY,
    DA,
    DONNIE HARRISON,
    Sheriff,
    RENE MATHEW,
    State Revenue et al.,
    Defendants-Appellees.
    ________________________
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the Middle District of Georgia
    ________________________
    (February 24, 2021)
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    Before JORDAN, GRANT, and BLACK, Circuit Judges.
    PER CURIAM:
    Rhonda Reid, proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s dismissal of her
    pro se second amended complaint under 
    42 U.S.C. § 1983
     for failure to state a
    claim upon which relief can be granted, lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, and
    several immunity grounds.
    Arguments not raised on appeal, even by pro se litigants, are deemed
    abandoned. Timson v. Sampson, 
    518 F.3d 870
    , 874 (11th Cir. 2008). An appellant
    also abandons a claim when: (1) she makes only passing reference to it; (2) she
    raises it in a “perfunctory manner without supporting arguments and authority”;
    (3) she refers to it only in the “statement of the case” or “summary of the
    argument”; or (4) the references to the issue are mere background to her main
    arguments. Sapuppo v. Allstate Floridian Ins. Co., 
    739 F.3d 678
    , 681-82 (11th Cir.
    2014).
    Reid has not raised any arguments in her brief attacking the merits of the
    district court’s order and has therefore abandoned those arguments on appeal. See
    Timson, 
    518 F.3d at 874
    . Even liberally construed, Reid reiterates only the
    allegations in her second amended complaint and the procedural history in the
    district court, without addressing the findings and supporting reasoning by the
    district court as to any of its stated grounds for dismissal. See Sapuppo, 
    739 F.3d 2
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    at 681-82. Therefore, because Reid makes only passing references to the district
    court’s order and otherwise raises it in a “perfunctory manner without supporting
    arguments and authority,” she has abandoned any assertion the district court’s
    order was erroneous. Id.; Timson, 
    518 F.3d at 874
    . Accordingly, we affirm the
    district court.
    AFFIRMED.
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