Amos v. Spiro Public Schools

In Amos v. Spiro Public Schools, 2004 OK 4, 85 P.3d 81, the Supreme Court held: "When resolving a public-law issue, if the aggrieved party's brief advances the wrong reason for a decision's vacation, the reviewing court is free to grant corrective relief from the urged error on an applicable theory chosen sua sponte, i.e. a theory that supports the assigned error but was neither advanced below nor on appeal but is dispositive of the issue raised by the aggrieved party. It is hence not necessary that we address ourselves here to the litigant's arguments and authorities."