Doe v. Hauppauge Union Free Sch. Dist.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the appellants’ failure to address the district court’s reasoning for a fee award was “fatal”
• noting that “our preservation doctrines function not as absolute constraints on our power to review but, rather, more like prudential norms”
• recognizing the Tenth Circuit’s “preference for the percentage-of-the-fund approach” in common fund cases
• noting that results and amount obtained may be weighed more heavily
• describing forfeited objections as being “thought of as the product of inadvertence or ignorance of a legal issue”
• noting wait-and-see tactics “undercut[] the orderly and efficient judicial process that objection opportunities are designed to ensure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).