Opinion ID: 3072049
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Heading: The Remaining Orders

Text: Each of the remaining orders was held to be insufficiently briefed before the district court and, therefore, abandoned. Given the Appellants’ lack of systematic attention to each of the bankruptcy court’s reasons, we uphold the district court’s determination. It is not the function of an appellate court—or the district court functioning in an appellate role for the bankruptcy court—to divine arguments on behalf of litigants from a substantial narrative; undeveloped arguments are rightly ignored. United States v. Martinez, 263 F.3d 436, 438 (5th Cir. 2001). Nor should this court pass on arguments that were never properly presented to the district court. 5 Appellants’ claim that they seek to preserve claims against non-debtors, i.e., claims not covered by § 1144, is meritless. The Compromise Orders, which were recapitulated in the plan, covered those non-debtors as well; only an appeal of the confirmation order could have changed this. 8 Case: 11-51082 Document: 00512121946 Page: 9 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 No. 11-51082