Opinion
No. 14-16916
06-17-2016
KRISLEE CARDINAL HALL, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. APOLLO GROUP, INC.; THE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, INC., Defendants - Appellees.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 5:14-cv-01404-LHK MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Lucy H. Koh, District Judge, Presiding Before: BEA, WATFORD, and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Krislee Cardinal Hall appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing her diversity action alleging various claims in connection with her enrollment in higher education degree programs. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm.
We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009); see also Greenwood v. FAA, 28 F.3d 971, 977 (9th Cir. 1994) ("We will not manufacture arguments for an appellant, and a bare assertion does not preserve a claim[.]"). Accordingly, we do not consider whether the district court properly dismissed Hall's complaint.
We reject as without merit Hall's contentions that the district court was biased against her or engaged in judicial misconduct. See United States v. Hernandez, 109 F.3d 1450, 1453-54 (9th Cir. 1997) (explaining that under both 28 U.S.C. § 144 and 28 U.S.C. § 455, the substantive standard for recusal is whether "a reasonable person with knowledge of all the facts would conclude that the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned" (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); see also United States v. Johnson, 610 F.3d 1138, 1147 (9th Cir. 2010) ("[J]udicial rulings or information acquired by the court in its judicial capacity will rarely support recusal.").
All pending motions and requests are denied.
AFFIRMED.