Kinross Copper Corp. v. State

How courts have described this case

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• an appellate court is not limited to issues that are the focus of the trial court’s decision and may instead affirm on an alternative ground, as long as no further record would be required to support that alternate ground
• “[T]he effect of the Desert Land Act of 1877 ... [was to sever] water rights from the other rights conferred by the granting of mining claims and require[ ] that water rights be obtained in accordance with applicable state water laws.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).