City of Asbury v. Iowa City Development Board

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding when a party fails to articulate a claim in its brief, the party waives the argument on the issue
• “We follow the Restatement’s rule concerning the effect of duress on the enforceability of a contract . . . .”
• “We may not, under the guise of judicial construction, add modifying words to a statute or change its terms absent ‘inadvertent clerical errors or omissions which frustrate obvious legislative intent.’” (citation omitted)
• “[The party] failed to articulate this claim in its brief and failed to address any specific application of [the legal principles] to this case. Accordingly, [the party] has waived this argument and we do not address it further.”

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