Case Name: Vincent F. RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-08-09
Citations: 140 F. App'x 309
Docket Number: Docket No. 04-6369CV
Parties: Vincent F. RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Present: CALABRESI, RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and MURTELA, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 140
Pages: 309–309

Head Matter:
Vincent F. RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellee.
Docket No. 04-6369CV.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Aug. 9, 2005.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Arthur D. Spatt, J.).
Vincent F. Rivera, Raiford, FL, for Appellant, pro se.
Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, NY, for Appellee.
Present: CALABRESI, RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and MURTELA, District Judge.
Defendant did not appear in this case, because service of the complaint was defective at the court below.
The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the decision of the District Court is AFFIRMED.
Petitioner Vincent F. Rivera ("Rivera"), proceeding pro se, appeals an October 25, 2004 decision by District Court Judge Arthur D. Spatt of the Eastern District of New York. Petitioner's appeal fails to raise any of the issues decided below by Judge Spatt. New arguments are not properly made for the first time on appeal, see Singleton v. Wulff, 428 U.S. 106, 120-21, 96 S.Ct. 2868, 49 L.Ed.2d 826 (1976), and Rivera's failure to discuss in his brief any of the issues he raised in the district court requires that those issues be deemed abandoned, see LoSacco v. City of Middletown, 71 F.3d 88, 92-93 (2d Cir.1995). There are no claims for this court to review.
The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.