In Re the Adoption of E.N.R.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a constitutional challenge to the applicable statute raised for the first time during oral argument was not properly presented to the trial court
• holding that courts “are limited in authority to the adjudication of issues that are presented and decided in the trial courts”
• holding that courts “are limited in authority to the adjudication of issues that are presented and decided in the trial courts”
• concluding that a constitutional challenge to the applicable statute raised for the first time during oral argument was not properly presented to the trial court
• holding that issues challenging the constitutionality of a statute may be waived when they are raised so late as to be “little more than an afterthought”
• recognizing that “the court speaks through its order, not through the transcript”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).