Opinion
No. 12-2908
01-16-2013
TOM FRANKLIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DAVID M. APPLEGATE and GMAC MORTGAGE COMPANY, Defendants-Appellees.
NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION
To be cited only in accordance with
Fed. R. App. P. 32.1
Before
RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge
DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge
Appeal from the United States District
Court for the Northern District of Illinois,
Eastern Division.
No. 12 C 6087
Ruben Castillo,
Judge.
ORDER
Tom Franklin appeals the dismissal of his suit for alleged racial discrimination and predatory lending by GMAC Mortgage Company and its CEO, David Applegate. Franklin asserts that the defendants targeted African-American customers like himself and charged them inflated interest rates on large loans procured by fraudulent appraisals. The district court dismissed the suit for improper venue because Franklin identified himself as a Texas resident and listed a non-Illinois (Iowa) address for both defendants.
On appeal Franklin does not develop any legal argument challenging the basis of the dismissal. A brief must contain "contentions and the reasons for them, with citations to the authorities and parts of the record on which the appellant relies." FED. R. APP. P. 28(a)(9). Franklin's brief instead merely reproduces the complaint almost verbatim without addressing venue. We construe pro se filings liberally, but even a pro se brief must contain more than a general assertion of error. Correa v. White, 518 F.3d 516, 517-18 (7th Cir. 2008); Anderson v. Hardman, 241 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2001).
DISMISSED.