Rhonda Reid v. Candace Lawson, et al.

[DO NOT PUBLISH]
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
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No. 20-12350
Non-Argument Calendar
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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.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Middle District of Georgia
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(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
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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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