Opinion ID: 1442370
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Plaintiffs-Appellants' Due Process Claim

Text: The district court did not analyze the Due Process claim explicitly but granted summary judgment to the Board on this claim. Plaintiffs-Appellants did not argue due process (substantive or procedural) in their summary judgment motion, mentioned it once (without analysis) in their opening brief for this court, Plaintiffs-Appellants Br. at 14, and devoted two pages to it in their Reply brief, Reply Br. at 10-11 (arguing that the procedural-due-process elements align themselves with the requirements of Mosley,  which conducts an equal-protection analysis). [A]n issue is deemed forfeited on appeal if it is merely mentioned and not developed. United States v. Clark, 469 F.3d 568, 570 (6th Cir.2006) (citing United States v. Reed, 167 F.3d 984, 993 (6th Cir.1999), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 897, 120 S.Ct. 229, 145 L.Ed.2d 192 (1999)); S.H.A.R.K. v. Metro Parks Serving Summit County, 499 F.3d 553, 564-65 (6th Cir.2007) (citing Reed, 167 F.3d at 993). Therefore, because Plaintiffs-Appellants failed to develop adequately this issue in their opening brief, we do not consider it.