How to tell an appeal is DOA? If it starts off like
this one:
This case involves an appeal fatally crippled by an insufficient appellate record.
Or, it says on page 2, as
here:
Our consideration of the merits of this appeal is impaired by appellants’ material
noncompliance with the rules of appellate procedure. As discussed below, this
noncompliance may be generally categorized as appellants’ failure in their opening brief
(1) to provide a summary of the procedural history and summary of facts of this case, and
(2) to include proper citations to the record.
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