Geaslen v. Berkson, Gorov & Levin, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was inappropriate to affirm dismissal of complaint on the basis of a correctable defect not raised below where plaintiffs would likely have been granted leave to amend if the defect had been raised below
• holding that it was inappropriate to affirm dismissal of complaint on the basis of a correctable defect not raised below where plaintiffs would likely have been granted leave to amend if the defect had been raised below
• admonishing appellate court not to consider different theories or new questions when those issues could have been refuted in the trial court
• no fiduciary relationship where plaintiffs were represented by independent legal counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).