Occidental Energy Marketing, Inc. v. West Texas LPG Pipeline L.P.

How courts have described this case

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• finding argument forfeited where it was “adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation” (citation omitted)
• refusing to address potential issue of first impression “adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation” (citations omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• The “elements” of a lesser-included offense “are identical to part of the elements of the greater offense.”
• “It is not our role to fashion new law without the benefits of the adversarial system, in which the parties evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each other’s arguments.”
• defendant “failed sufficiently to develop his lesser-included offense argument and thus forfeited the argument”

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