Legal Opinion
Reyes-Garcia v. Rodriguez & Del Valle, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 25, 1996No. 95-1455PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Since appellate judges are not haruspices, they are unable to decide cases by reading goats’ entrails. They instead must rely on lawyers and litigants to submit briefs that present suitably developed argumentation with appropriate citations to applicable precedents and to the record below. A party who honors the minimum standards of acceptable appellate advocacy only in the breach frustrates effective review and thereby jeopardizes its appeal. The case at bar is a paradigmatic example of a situation in which a party, by ignoring the rules, invites serious repercussions.
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