Amanda York Beaty and Nancie York Gunter v. United States

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• holding that the district court abused its discretion by sua sponte granting summary judgment based on a statute that the parties never raised—a statute that was “not important to th[e] case” and “simply d[id] not apply”
• opting to resolve an issue not decided below because “the record is complete, and it would be a waste of everyone’s time to remand to the district court what can be decided now as a matter of law”
• “Here, the record is complete, and it would be a waste of everyone’s time to remand to the district court what can be decided now as a matter of law.”
• none of Government's arguments had a chance of succeeding as a matter of law

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