Washington Post Co. v. Kelly

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The requirement that parties to an appeal set out the proper standard of review for each assignment of error is not a mere formality.”
• even though a case is an equity case, de novo review applies only in “some procedural postures”
• “Normal devel- opmental changes * * * are not unanticipated changes * * * and so cannot, in themselves, provide the basis for a change in circumstances.”
• “[T]here can be no directed verdict in a case tided to the court.”
• even an accomplished move does not amount to a substantial change in circumstances unless it “has had a significant adverse effect” on a parent’s “capacity to care for the children”
• “[W]ritten orders control over oral judicial statements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).