United States v. Ilario M.A. Zannino

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that ”[i]t is not enough merely to mention a possible argument in the most skeletal way, leaving the court to do counsel's work”
• holding that “issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner” in appellate briefs “are deemed waived”
• recognizing that it is not the court’s job to “do counsel’s work, create the ossature for the argument, and put flesh on its bones”
• holding that \issues . . . unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation[] are deemed waived\
• explaining that “issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived”
• holding that party's failure to develop argument in appellate brief results in waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).