Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised in the appellate briefing to such an extent that the court addressed the argument in its decision and found it to be meritorious

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised in the appellate briefing to such an extent that the court addressed the argument in its decision and found it to be meritorious.