Case Name: Agavni TOROYAN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-07-26
Citations: 192 F. App'x 622
Docket Number: No. 04-73278
Parties: Agavni TOROYAN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 192
Pages: 622–624

Head Matter:
Agavni TOROYAN, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-73278.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 24, 2006.
Filed July 26, 2006.
James L. Rosenberg, Esq., Law Offices of James L. Rosenberg, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Agavni Toroyan, an ethnic Armenian native of Bulgaria and citizen of Ukraine, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) summary affirmance of the immigration judge's (IJ) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) relief. We dismiss the petition.
Toroyan's brief fails to comply with Fed. R.App. P. 28(a). Neither the statement of facts nor her argument contains citations to the relevant portions of the testimony or the documentary evidence, and her brief also lacks appropriate references to relevant authority. Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(7); Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9)(A). Further, Toroyan's brief does not contain a summary of the argument, Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(8), or a statement of the applicable standard of review with respect to the issue presented, Fed. R.App. P. 28(a)(9)(B). Failure to comply with Rule 28(a) is sufficient to justify dismissal. Cmty. Commerce Bank v. O'Brien (In re O'Brien), 312 F.3d 1135, 1136 (9th Cir.2002) (citing Han v. Stanford Univ. Dining Servs., 210 F.3d 1038, 1040 (9th Cir. 2000)).
While we might hesitate to dismiss a meritorious case for failure to comply with Rule 28, N/S Corp. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 127 F.3d 1145, 1146 (9th Cir.1997), Toroyan's petition is not meritorious. The IJ offered specific and cogent reasons for disbelieving Toroyan's claim that she suffered persecution on account of a protected ground. Gui v. INS, 280 F.3d 1217, 1225 (9th Cir.2002). For example, the IJ noted inconsistencies with respect to Toroyan's position at the news station, and he pointed out several factual discrepancies regarding the alleged attacks on her husband and daughter. The IJ thus relied upon inconsistencies that are supported by the record and are significant to Toroyan's asylum claim. Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 964 (9th Cir.2004) (holding that the reviewing court must accept the adverse credibility finding "[s]o long as one of the identified grounds is supported by substantial evidence and goes to the heart of [the petitioner's] claim of persecution" (internal quotation marks omitted, first alteration in original)).
PETITION DISMISSED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.