Toroyan

MEMORANDUM **

Agavni Toroyan, an ethnic Armenian native of Bulgaria and citizen of Ukraine, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) summary affirmance of the immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) relief. We dismiss the petition.

Toroyan’s brief fails to comply with Fed. R.App. P. 28(a). Neither the statement of facts nor her argument contains citations to the relevant portions of the testimony or the documentary evidence, and her brief also lacks appropriate references to relevant authority. Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(7); Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9)(A). Further, Toroyan’s brief does not contain a summary of the argument, Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(8), or a statement of the applicable standard of review with respect to the issue presented, Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9)(B). Failure to comply with Rule 28(a) is sufficient to justify dismissal. Cmty. Commerce Bank v. O’Brien (In re O’Brien), 312 F.3d 1135, 1136 (9th Cir.2002) (citing Han v. Stanford Univ. Dining Servs., 210 F.3d 1038 , 1040 (9th Cir. 2000)).

While we might hesitate to dismiss a meritorious case for failure to comply with Rule…