Wells Fargo Bank v. Terry
Defendant and appellant Brian Terry (Terry), who is in propria persona, appeals from the default judgment entered in favor of plaintiff and respondent Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Wells Fargo).[1] We affirm on the ground that Terry has failed to meet his burden on appeal to affirmatively show trial court error.
“‘A judgment or order of the lower court is presumed correct. All intendments and presumptions are indulged to support it on matters as to which the record is silent, and error must be affirmatively shown. This is not only a general principle of appellate practice but an ingredient of the constitutional doctrine of reversible error.’†(Denham v. Superior Court (1970) 2 Cal.3d 557, 564; Hernandez v. California Hospital Medical Center (2000) 78 Cal.App.4th 498, 502.)
Rule 8.204(a)(1)(C) of the California Rules of Court requires all appellate briefs to “[s]upport any reference to a matter in the record by a citation to the volume and page number of the record where the matter appears.†It is well-established that “‘[i]f a party fails to support an argument with the necessary citations to the record, . . . the argument [will be] deemed to have been waived. [Citation.]’†(Nwosu v. Uba (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th 1229, 1246.) The opening brief contains only a single citation to the record. Because Terry has failed to provide the necessary citations to support his arguments, we deem his arguments to be forfeited.
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