James Ward v. Duke Terrell

369 F. App'x 772

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Decided: March 31, 2010
• Docket: 09-1609
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Federal inmate James Ward appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. He argues that the Bureau of Prisons violated his right to equal protection and his Fifth Amendment rights by imposing certain disciplinary sanctions against him. He also challenges, in his reply brief only, the district court’s denial of his motion to amend the petition.

Ward did not raise the equal protection or Fifth Amendment arguments in the district court, so we will not consider them here. See Orr v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 297 F.3d 720, 725 (8th Cir.2002) (appellate court considers argument raised for first time on appeal only if it is purely legal and requires no additional factual development, or if manifest injustice would otherwise result). Further, Ward waived the issue regarding the motion to amend by not meaningfully arguing it in his opening brief. See Chay-Velasquez v. Ashcroft, 367 F.3d 751, 756 (8th Cir.2004).

We deny Ward’s two motions to supplement the record on appeal. See Dakota Indus., Inc. v. Dakota Sportswear, Inc., 988 F.2d 61, 63 (8th Cir.1993) (when interests of justice demand, appellate court may order record of case enlarged, but authority to enlarge record is rarely exercised and is narrow exception to general rule that appellate court may consider only record made before district court).

Accordingly, we affirm.

1 . The Honorable Ann D. Montgomery, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Jeffrey J. Keyes, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.