Bromley Contracting Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that seventeen “essentially identical” physician contracts were not contracts for personal services
• noting that a doctor who examines a claimant just once is not a treating physician and thus that doctor’s opinion is not entitled to great weight
• “[T]he consensus among our sister circuits, with which we 14 agree, is that courts may dismiss under Rule 41(b) sua sponte.”
• “We have long held that an appellant abandons a claim when he either makes only passing references to it or raises it in a perfunctory manner without supporting arguments and authority.”
• “Abandonment of an issue can also occur when passing references appear in the argument section of an opening brief, particularly when the references are . . . ‘buried’ within [the main] arguments.”

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