Becky Prescott Sullivan v. Timothy Matthew Sullivan .

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that arguments adverted to “‘in a perfunctory manner’ without an ‘effort at developed argumentation,’” are deemed forfeited
• stating that “a party may not raise an issue on appeal by mentioning it in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to put flesh on its bones” (cleaned up)
• discussing the collateral bar rule applicable to contempt charges not related to assertions of Fifth Amendment rights
• repeating the oft-cited proposition that it is not up to the court to put flesh on the bones of a skeletal argument
• applying the most stringent harmless-error standard without deciding whether a constitutional error occurred
• deciding harmlessness in the first instance

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