Court Opinion

ID: 9767950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:36:21.796188+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:35.032778
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OPINION ON PETITION TO REHEAR

BROCK, Justice.
The appellant has filed a petition to rehear and a supplemental petition to rehear in this cause and the Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, as amicus curiae, and both the parties have filed briefs all of which have been thoroughly considered by the Court. The Court is of the opinion that the petition and supplemental petition to rehear fail to advance any argument, cite any new authority or point out any material fact which is shown to have been overlooked in the original opinion.
The appellant and the Attorney General, amicus curiae, express certain apprehensions with respect to the impact which they fear the original opinion may have upon issues not presented to the Court in this cause. We know that the apprehensions expressed are sincerely held but we are of the opinion that the original opinion of the Court does not justify such fears and that the holding of the Court clearly is restricted to the question presented. In the event that the feared results should occur, the questions thus raised must await a case by case determination in the ordinary way.
The petition and supplemental petition to rehear are denied.
COOPER and HENRY, JJ., concur.
FONES, C. J., and HARBISON, J., concur in part, dissent in part.