Opinion ID: 1953366
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: whether the circuit court erred in failing to grant appellant's motion to amend her complaint.

Text: Although Cook cited this as an issue in her statement of issues, she failed to brief the Court as to this issue altogether. Therefore, this Court finds that the issue is waived not only for the failure to cite authority, but the failure to address the issue. See Brown v. State, supra . However, as in the preceding section, even if we addressed this issue, the result would be identical. Cook asked the Hinds County Circuit Court for leave to amend the complaint to include the Gaming Commission as a defendant. The court gave Cook leave to do so, but she never amended the complaint. The court subsequently transferred the case to Hancock County Circuit Court. At the hearing where the Hancock County Circuit Court determined that it had no jurisdiction to hear the complaint, the court delayed ruling on the question of whether it would allow Cook to amend her complaint. As a matter of fact, there is no showing in the record that the court ever approved or denied a motion to amend the complaint. Since there is no evidence of such in the record, this Court has no basis from which to issue a ruling. For the foregoing reasons, this Court finds this issue, as well as this appeal, to be meritless.