Zeman v. Lufthansa German Airlines

How courts have described this case

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• holding that litigants may “expand or refine details of an argument otherwise preserved” under certain conditions
• stating that summary judgment on breach of contract claim is appropriate where no reasonable person could read purported acceptance as evidencing mutual assent
• noting that court may review an issue if new argument is closely related to trial - court arguments so that they \could have been gleaned\ from the pleadings
• noting general rule that parties may not raise new issues on appeal to obtain reversal
• stating that generally new issues or theories may not first be (continued...
• applying liberal approach to determining whether issue or theory was raised in lower court

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