How have courts treated the issue of statute limitations on appeal?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Foster v. Alameda Health Sys., A142359, A142981 (Cal. App. 2016):

Beyond appellant's apparent effort to raise a statute of limitations issue without developing any legal argument or addressing the basis of the trial court's ruling against her, we cannot tell what else she assigns as error and why any such error might be cognizable on appeal. When error is not brought to our attention, we have no obligation to ferret it out. (See Jones v. Superior Court (1994) 26 Cal.App.4th 92, 99 ["Issues do not have a life of their own: if they are not raised or supported by argument or citation to authority, we consider the issues waived."]; Dills v. Redwoods Associates, Ltd. (1994) 28 Cal.App.4th 888, 890, fn. 1; Del Real v. City of Riverside (2002) 95 Cal.App.4th 761, 768.) The orders under review here are entitled to a presumption of correctness on

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