City of Seattle v. McCready

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that the court “is not constrained by the issues as framed by the parties if the parties ignore a constitutional mandate, a statutory commandment, or an established precedent”
• recognizing \that well-established principles of the common law may in some cases be sufficient to provide the authority of law required\ by article I, section 7
• rejecting the position that “a statute is categorically sufficient to provide the authority of law necessary to satisfy Const, art. 1, § 7”
• reviewing court may consider an unbriefed legal issue that presents itself with \disquieting obtrusiveness\ upon examination of the record, especially if parties are given the opportunity for supplemental briefing
• reviewing court may consider an unbriefed legal issue that presents itself with “disquieting obtrusiveness” upon examination of the record, especially if parties are given the opportunity for supplemental briefing
• court with inherent discretionary authority to reach an issue not briefed by parties if the issue is necessary for decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).