Currie
Currie v. John Hancock Life Insurance
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Karen Currie appeals the district court’s dismissal without leave to amend of her first amended complaint. We dismiss the appeal.
Currie’s brief fails to comply with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28. N/S Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co., 127 F.3d 1145, 1146 (9th Cir.1997). The opening brief does not contain a statement of facts with appropriate references to the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(7). It has no standard of review section explaining what the applicable standard of review is, and this omission is not corrected elsewhere in the brief. See Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9)(B); 9th Cir. R. 28-2.5; N/S Corp., 127 F.3d at 1146 . The summary of argument section does not contain an accurate statement of the arguments made in the body of the brief and fails to comply with Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(8). There are virtually no record citations anywhere in the brief. See Fed. RApp. P. 28(a)(9)(A); 9th Cir. R. 28-2.8.
Beyond this, we cannot tell which issues Currie is actually raising or arguing other than that the district court ignored Rule 8(a) in dismissing her complaint and that the district court did not follow law with respect to the abstention doctrine 1 in…