Townsend v. City of Cleveland

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that trial court improperly took judicial notice in divorce action of testimony in earlier child-protection proceeding but declining to reverse on this ground because error was harmless
• holding that “ [i]t is improper to judicially notice the content of testimony in another proceeding” and noting that the method for introducing testimony from a past proceeding is set forth in Rule 804(b)(1) of the Rules of Evidence
• court's decision will be upheld unless its discretion was abused, withheld, or exercised on clearly untenable grounds
• court’s decision will be upheld unless its discretion was abused, withheld, or exercised on clearly untenable grounds
• “Even with respect to constitutional claims, we ordinarily require that the issue on appeal be raised below.”
• “As to strangers, the divorce decree does not establish the existence of a valid marriage prior to the decree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).