Rudy Hernandez v. Gary Starbuck, Superintendent of the Wyoming Honor Farm Attorney General of the State of Wyoming

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the courts of appeal are \not required to manufacture appellant['s] argument\
• observing we are “not required to manufacture an appellant’s argument on appeal” and emphasizing that the appellant “bears the burden of demonstrating the alleged error” in the district court’s decision (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Because the appellant comes to the court of appeals as the challenger, he bears the burden of demonstrating the alleged error . . . .”
• a court is not required to manufacture a party’s appellate arguments, and if an issue is not briefed and argued it is waived
• “Because the appellant comes to the court of appeals as the challenger, he bears the burden of demonstrating the alleged error and the precise relief sought.”
• a court of appeals has “freedom to affirm a district court decision on any grounds for which there is a record sufficient to permit conclusions of law, even grounds not relied upon by the district court” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).