Filed: Apr. 20, 2006
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Summary: United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit F I L E D IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT April 20, 2006 Charles R. Fulbruge III No. 05-60513 Clerk FIRST FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EDDIE DEAN FORTENBERRY; ET AL, Defendants; EDDIE DEAN FORTENBERRY, Defendant-Appellant, versus UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendant-Appellee. - Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (2:02-CV-00115-EEF) - Before KING, WIENE
Summary: United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit F I L E D IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT April 20, 2006 Charles R. Fulbruge III No. 05-60513 Clerk FIRST FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus EDDIE DEAN FORTENBERRY; ET AL, Defendants; EDDIE DEAN FORTENBERRY, Defendant-Appellant, versus UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendant-Appellee. - Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (2:02-CV-00115-EEF) - Before KING, WIENER..
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United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
F I L E D
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT April 20, 2006
Charles R. Fulbruge III
No. 05-60513 Clerk
FIRST FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
versus
EDDIE DEAN FORTENBERRY; ET AL,
Defendants;
EDDIE DEAN FORTENBERRY,
Defendant-Appellant,
versus
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendant-Appellee.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Mississippi
(2:02-CV-00115-EEF)
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Before KING, WIENER, and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM*:
Eddie Dean Fortenberry (“Fortenberry”) appeals the district
court’s denial of her petition for pre-judgment interest. Having
carefully reviewed the record and briefs, we affirm the district
court’s judgment because, although Fortenberry raised five points
of error in her notice of appeal, she did not substantively address
*
Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
any of these issues in her appellate brief, provide us with any
authority in support of her position, or direct us to any pertinent
portions of the record. Generally, issues not briefed are deemed
to be abandoned on appeal, even in the case of a pro se litigant
like Fortenberry.1
Fortenberry’s only argument on appeal is that we should
reverse the district court’s judgment because First Federal Bank
for Savings’s (“First Federal”) attorney obtained it by committing
a fraud on that court. She has not cited to any evidence in
support of her claim and we have found none in the record. We thus
AFFIRM the district court’s judgment denying Fortenberry pre-
judgment interest.
1
See, e.g., Geiger v. Jowers,
404 F.3d 371, 373 n.6
(“Although pro se briefs are to be liberally construed, pro se
litigants have no general immunity from the rule that issues and
arguments not briefed on appeal are abandoned.”) (internal citation
omitted); Price v. Digital Equip. Corp.,
846 F.2d 1026, 1028 (5th
Cir. 1988) (same); FED. R. APP. P. 28(a)(9)(A) (stating that
appellant’s brief must contain “appellant’s contentions and the
reasons for them, with citations to the authorities and parts of
the record on which the appellant relies”).
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