Jenkins v. NYS Banking Dept.
Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
In these tandem appeals, Appellant Rachel Jenkins, pro se, challenges the District Court’s June 15, 2010, judgments granting Appellee’s motions for summary judgment and dismissing Jenkins’s employment discrimination actions.
Following a de novo review of the record, we affirm for substantially the same reasons stated by the District Court in its careful and comprehensive June 11, 2010, Memorandum Opinion, as amended by its order of September 30, 2010. Jenkins has not raised any specific challenge to the District Court’s summary judgment decision and has not set forth any arguments challenging that decision in her opening brief. See JP Morgan Chase Bank v. Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., 412 F.3d 418, 428 (2d Cir. 2005) (“[Ajrguments not made in an appellant’s opening brief are waived even if the appellant pursued those arguments in the district court or raised them in a reply brief.”); LoSacco v. City of Middletown, 71 F.3d 88, 92-93 (2d Cir. 1995) (holding that issues not raised in pro se appellant’s opening brief were abandoned and observing that “we need not manufacture claims of error for an appellant proceeding pro se, especially when he has raised an issue below and elected not to pursue it on appeal”).
CONCLUSION
We have considered all of Jenkins’s arguments and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgments of the District Court.
. Jenkins filed her first complaint, pro se, in July 2007, alleging discrimination on the bases of gender, age, and religion. In November 2007, she filed a second pro se complaint, raising certain identical, and certain additional, claims of discrimination. The two actions were assigned to the same judge and litigated jointly, though never consolidated.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Rachel JENKINS v. NYS BANKING DEPT., Defendant-Appellee Rachel Jenkins v. NYS Banking Dept.
- Status
- Published