Economy Folding Box Corp. v. Anchor Frozen Foods Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding, in the context of waiver, that a party cannot rely on a general statement made in the trial court to claim it has raised the specific argument below
• holding, in the context of waiver, that a party cannot rely on a general statement made in the trial court to claim it has raised the specific argument below
• finding an argument raised for the first time on appeal to be waived because the party must “accept the consequences of [its] decision” to present its claims under one legal theory instead of another
• noting it is not the role of a reviewing court to develop arguments for a plaintiff and subsequently address the arguments the plaintiff could or should have made
• \[I]t is axiomatic that an issue not first presented to the district court may not be raised before the appellate court as a ground for reversal.\
• “[i]t is axiomatic that an issue not first presented to the district court may not be raised before the appellate court as a ground for reversal”

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