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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 10 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Miller v. Eighteenth Judicial District Court.

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1 Miller v. Eighteenth Judicial District Court Anchor
mont · 2007
green “forfeiture,' as opposed to 'waiver,' is the correct term in this context, since 'forfeiture' refers to 'the failure to make the timely assertion of a right,' whereas 'waiver' concerns 'the intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right.” 4
2 Silva v. City of Columbia Falls
mont · 1993
green “a decision is arbitrary if it appears to be 'random, unreasonable, or seemingly unmotivated, based on the existing record.” 3
3 In Re TE
mont · 2002
green “in order to preserve a claim or objection for appeal, an appellant must first raise that specific claim or objection in the lower court” 3

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