Woolard

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

I.

BRIEFING

We must, unfortunately, begin by noting that Woolard and Hall’s sole brief does not comply with the California Rules of Court. Each brief must “[s]upport any reference to a matter in the record by a citation to the volume and page number of the record where the matter appears.” (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.204(a)(1)(C).) “‘It is the duty of a party to support the arguments in its briefs by appropriate reference to the record, which includes providing exact page citations.’” If facts are not supported by correct record citations,

1 Smith and Thorne are not part of this appeal.

2 the party’s arguments may be deemed waived. (Duarte v. Chino Community Hospital (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 849, 856; see Stover v. Bruntz (2017) 12 Cal.App.5th 19, 28.) The section labeled “Statement of Facts” in Woolard and Hall’s brief does not include a single reference to the record; it is, essentially, useless to us. The record in this case exceeds 1,200 pages, and it is not our role to go through the record, page by page, searching for the facts that support Woolard and Hall’s assertions. While we could exercise our discretion to deem Woolard and…