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REYES-GARCIA v. RODRIGUEZ & DEL VALLE, INC.

No. 95-1455.

82 F.3d 11 (1996)

Maria Del Carmen REYES-GARCIA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. RODRIGUEZ & DEL VALLE, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgilio Mendez Cuesta, Rio Piedras, on brief, for appellant.

Jose F. Quetglas Alvarez, Jose F. Quetglas Jordan and Eric M. Quetglas Jordan, Santurce, on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA and CYR, Circuit Judges, and GERTNER, District Judge.

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...

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