Leverage Leasing Co. v. Smith

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• holding that where a party does not file a cross-appeal, they may only raise arguments in support of the trial court’s judgment that do not seek to increase their rights under the judgment
• “Without filing a cross-appeal, however, an appellee may raise any argument in support of the trial court’s judgment, so long as the appellee does not seek to increase his rights under the judgment.”
• “In general, an appellee must file 9 a cross-appeal before the appellate court may consider an alleged trial court error that prejudiced the appellee”; the appellee may “not seek to increase its rights under the judgment” without filing a cross-appeal.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).