Cortés-Rivera v. Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an argument raised in a perfunctory manner is deemed waived
• indicating that a party objecting to a magistrate judge’s recommendation must adequately brief the issue to the district court or risk waiver
• examining “plain language” of complaint and its structure to determine if it raised a claim
• affirming the dismissal of a claim that the plaintiff pleaded in the complaint in state law terms and then attempted to reframe in federal law terms in the face of a motion for summary judgment
• remanding “to afford the agency the opportunity either to articulate a reasoned explanation for its action or to adopt a different action with a reasoned explanation that supports it”
• “‘An injunction is a matter of equitable discretion’ and is ‘an 22 extraordinary remedy that may only be awarded upon a clear showing that the plaintiff is entitled 23 to such relief.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).