Sparkle Hill, Inc. v. Interstate Mat Corporation

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• ruling that where appellant failed to object in the lower court, appellant’s arguments on appeal were subject “[a]t best” only to “plain error review”
• noting that arguments first asserted in a reply brief ordinarily are deemed waived or forfeited
• explaining that our \customary practice\ is to deem arguments not raised in a party's opening brief waived
• finding waiver where \the opening brief presents no argument at all challenging express grounds upon which the district court prominently relied in entering judgment\
• “Our precedent is clear: we do not consider arguments for reversing a decision of a district court when the argument is not raised in a party’s opening brief.”
• \[W]e do not consider arguments for reversing a decision of a district court when the argument is not raised in a party's opening brief.\

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