Biggerstaff v. Board of County Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing our discretion whether to consider an alternative basis to affirm
• declining to consider alternative bases for affirmance where “contentions were not preserved, much less fully developed”
• declining to exercise discretion to affirm on an alternate basis where the contentions “were not preserved, much less fully developed” in the proceedings below
• declining to exercise “prudential discretion” to consider various alternative bases for affirmance that were not raised, “much less developed,” in the proceedings under review and “present [ed] substantial issues of statutory and constitutional law”
• “[O]ur consideration of an alternative basis for affirmance is a matter of prudential discretion and not compulsion.”
• “[0]ur consideration of an alternative basis for affirmance is a matter of prudential discretion and not compulsion.”

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