Kroneburg v. Director of Patuxent Institution

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• holding that a party’s “cursory argument, made without citation to relevant authority or application of the law to the facts, is insufficiently briefed, and . . . abandoned.”
• holding that a party’s “cursory argument, made without citation to relevant authority or application of the law to the facts, is insufficiently briefed, and . . . abandoned.”
• holding that a party’s “cursory argument, made without citation to relevant authority or application of the law to the facts, is insufficiently briefed, and . . . abandoned.”
• explaining that if good reasons exist both for granting and withholding consent to adopt, then “it cannot be said that the representative acted arbitrarily and capriciously in withholding that consent”
• deeming a “cursory argument, made without citation to relevant authority or application of the law to the facts,” to be “insufficiently briefed” and “consider[ing] it to be abandoned”
• “arbitrary” means without consideration of or reference to principles and reason, and “capricious” means freakish and whimsical

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).