Steiger

statement of facts, an appellant’s arguments must be supported “by appropriate reference to the record, which includes providing exact page citations”; we are not required to search the record for evidence and we may disregard unsupported factual assertions. (Air Couriers International v. Employment Development Dept. (2007) 150 Cal.App.4th 923, 928 (Air Couriers).) The failure to provide adequate citations to the record forfeits a claim of error. (Duarte v. Chino Community Hospital (1999) 72 Cal.App.4th 849, 856 (Duarte).)

2 AHS’s factual summary and many of its arguments include purported statements of fact that are not supported by adequate—or sometimes any— citations to the record on appeal, which is voluminous. The need for an appellant to provide exact citations to the record is of particular importance in a case like this one, where the appellant’s appendix exceeds 4,500 pages and the reporter’s transcript, which includes pretrial and posttrial proceedings as well as the lengthy trial, comprises 27 volumes. Moreover, the summary of facts in AHS’s opening brief focuses almost entirely on evidence supporting AHS’s view of the case, which is that Steiger was terminated as part…