Verizon Business Network Services, Inc. Ex Rel. MCI Communications, Inc. v. Dept. of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a denial of due process constitutes fundamental error, which may be challenged for the first time on appeal
• considering merits of appellant’s due process claim that it was denied the right to have the case considered by an impartial tribunal despite the fact that argument was not made below
• “[T]he right of every litigant to appear before an impartial tribunal is a fundamental tenet of the constitutional guarantee of due process.”
• “A denial of due process, if proven, constitutes fundamental error, which may be challenged for the first time on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).