Starkey Ex Rel. AB v. BOULDER COUNTY SOC. SERV.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “we may affirm the ruling” when an appellant fails to “challenge a district court’s alternate ground for its ruling”
• declining to consider a jurisdictional question where the party claiming jurisdiction would clearly lose on the merits
• explaining that refusal to consider arguments or evidence supporting an argument first advanced in an appellate reply brief “protects us from publishing an erroneous opinion because we did not have the benefit of the appellee’s response” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating this court ordinarily declines to review new arguments made in reply brief
• “When an appellant does not challenge a district court’s alternate ground for its ruling, we may affirm the ruling.”
• “When an appellant does not challenge a district court’s alternate ground for its ruling, we may affirm the ruling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).