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11-1764-pr
    Gallaway v. Turner

                          UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                              FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                 SUMMARY ORDER
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         At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for
    the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United
    States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of New York, on
    the 3rd day of July, two thousand twelve.

    PRESENT:
              ROSEMARY S. POOLER,
              DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON,
                   Circuit Judges,
              BRIAN M. COGAN,
                   District Judge.*
    _____________________________________

    Derrick Gallaway,

                           Plaintiff-Appellant,

                     v.                                    11-1764-pr

    Donald Turner, Alpha Chapman, Renee
    Gallaway,

                   Defendants-Appellees.
    _____________________________________

            *
            The Honorable Brian M. Cogan, of the United States
    District Court for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by
    designation.

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FOR APPELLANT:       Derrick Gallaway, pro se, Folsom, Cal.

FOR APPELLEES:       No Appearance.

     Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court

for the Southern District of New York (Hellerstein, J.).

     UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND

DECREED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

     Derrick Gallaway, pro se, appeals from the district court’s

sua sponte dismissal of his complaint for lack of subject matter

jurisdiction as well as the district court’s denial of his

request for an extension of time to file a motion requesting

leave to file an amended complaint.   While Gallaway’s notice of

appeal refers to the district court’s order, dated March 15,

2011, denying Gallaway’s request for an extension of time, we

interpret his appeal before this Court as challenging the

district court’s underlying dismissal of his complaint as well.

See Shrader v. CSX Transp., Inc., 70 F.3d 255, 256 (2d Cir. 1995)

(“[W]e construe notices of appeal liberally, taking the parties’

intentions into account.”).    We assume the parties’ familiarity

with the underlying facts and the procedural history of the case.

     We review “the district court’s . . . sua sponte . . .

dismiss[al] for lack of subject matter jurisdiction . . . de

novo.”   Digitel, Inc. v. MCI Worldcom, Inc., 239 F.3d 187, 190

(2d Cir. 2001) (per curiam).   “We review a district court’s

[denial of an] extension of time for abuse of discretion.”

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Tancredi v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., 378 F.3d 220, 226 (2d Cir.

2004).

     Gallaway, however, has presented no specific arguments

challenging the district court’s determination that it lacked

subject matter jurisdiction to consider his complaint, or that

the court erred by denying his request for an extension of time.

Therefore, he has abandoned any potential claims on appeal.     See

LoSacco v. City of Middletown, 71 F.3d 88, 93 (2d Cir. 1995)

(noting that, although “appellate courts generally do not hold

pro se litigants rigidly to . . . formal briefing standards,” “we

need not manufacture claims of error for an appellant proceeding

pro se”); see also JP Morgan Chase Bank v. Altos Hornos de

Mexico, S.A. de C.V., 412 F.3d 418, 428 (2d Cir. 2005)

(“[A]rguments not made in an appellant’s opening brief are waived

even if the appellant pursued those arguments in the district

court or raised them in a reply brief.”).

     Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.

                              FOR THE COURT:
                              Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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