Court Opinion

ID: 9615473
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:37:14.726558+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:05:15.593516
License: Public Domain

SEARS, Presiding Justice,
concurring specially.
I tend to agree with much of the reasoning of the majority opinion. However, I cannot agree with the majority’s attempt to reconcile the right for any reason rule with the notion that an appellate court cannot affirm a trial court’s ruling if it was based upon an erroneous legal theory. I believe that appellate courts generally have an obligation to affirm a grant of summary judgment under the right for any reason rule., even if the trial court relied upon an erroneous legal theory. I also believe that appellate courts may decline to review any issue that has not been ruled upon by the trial court if that issue has not been adequately briefed and/or argued by the parties on appeal.
*840I am authorized to state that Justice Thompson joins in this special concurrence.