New York Rehabilitation Care Management, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a party had “forfeited any right to challenge” an issue it had not raised in its opening brief before the court
• explaining that “in order to prevent the ‘sandbagging’ of another party, ‘we have generally held that issues not raised until the reply brief are waived’” (citation omitted)
• declining to consider an argument that was “included [in] a heading” but not discussed further because “[i]t is not enough merely to mention a possible argument in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel’s work.”
• party forfeits argument by failing to brief it or by mentioning it only “in the most skeletal way” (internal quotation omitted)
• “[W]e have generally held that issues not raised until the reply brief are waived.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is not enough merely to mention a possible argument in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel’s work.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).