A state appeals court on Friday shut down a plaintiff’s attempt to recoup the diamond engagement ring he had given to his former fiancee.In dismissing the lawsuit plaintiff Edward Michael Liceaga brought against Isabel Baez, the 1st District Appellate Court rebuffed Liceaga’s attempts to raise completely new arguments after he lost at the trial court level. “Actions like that simply waste everyone’s time and money, as they did in this case, for over a year,” Justice Robert E. Gordon wrote. “If ever there was a case that …