Margaret Elizabeth Broderick-Home v. United States of America

Summary

The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Marshall Home’s motions seeking to reopen a civil proceeding brought by Margaret Elizabeth Broderick-Home and substitute Home as plaintiff after Broderick-Home’s death. The court held that Home abandoned any challenge to the denial of his motions by failing to brief the issue on appeal.

Holdings

1. A pro se litigant must brief an appellate argument to preserve it, and Home abandoned any challenge to the denial of his motions by failing to brief the only issue presented for appeal.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the district court erred in denying Marshall Home's motion to reconsider and supplemental motion to reconsider.
2. Whether Home preserved any challenge to the reasons for those denials by adequately briefing the issue on appeal.

Disposition

affirmed