Opinion ID: 766361
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Text: 62 Plaintiff also contends that the district court erred in dismissing the complaint's due process claims. We disagree. The district court properly dismissed those claims because the complaint failed to allege a deprivation of either a property interest or a liberty interest. We affirm the dismissal of those claims substantially for the reasons stated in the district court's opinion, see 1998 WL 599711 at-. 63 Finally, plaintiff contends that the district court should have allowed a further amendment to the complaint and should have allowed discovery of certain documents. We see no abuse of discretion in the district court's refusal to allow a further amendment to the complaint. We do not suggest, however, that the court may not allow further amendment or the filing of a supplemental complaint on remand, should it deem such a course appropriate. 64 We do not address plaintiff's discovery contentions for two reasons. First, as to any given discovery request, it is unclear from plaintiff's brief on appeal whether it related to the First Amendment and state-law claims or only to claims whose dismissal has not been overturned. Second, the substance of plaintiff's discovery contentions is not fully presented, as she purports to incorporate by reference the arguments she made to the district court. Merely incorporating an argument made to the district court, however, does not preserve a question for appellate review. Frank v. United States, 78 F.3d 815, 833 (2d Cir. 1996), vacated on other grounds, 521 U.S. 1114 (1997) (mem.). 65 To the extent that the prior discovery rulings related to the First Amendment and state-law claims, those rulings resume their status as interlocutory orders and remain subject to modification by the district court at any time prior to the entry of final judgment. We decline to review them at this time.