Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al.

Whether a district court may categorically stay all discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil action on a closed record where adjudication of the claims turns on facts uniquely within defendants’ possession.

Whether a court of appeals may apply a prudential waiver doctrine to foreclose appellate review of a dismissal entered after discovery was categorically denied, where the asserted waiver arises from the procedural posture created by the discovery stay itself.

Whether the interaction of categorical discovery stays and rigid application of prudential waiver doctrines permits district court dismissals to be effectively insulated from meaningful appellate review on the merits, in a manner capable of repetition yet evading review.