Court Opinion

ID: 9469580
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:44:14.451348+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:27.558127
License: Public Domain

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
Although I dissented in part, on the merits, from the panel opinion, 671 F.2d 1011, I concur here in the denial of the state’s petition for rehearing with suggestion for rehearing en banc on jurisdictional grounds. Moreover, I agree with Judge East that both the majority disposition and his own suggested disposition of the rehearing petition present acceptable grounds to sustain appellate jurisdiction. The denial of the rehearing petition is, I believe, buttressed in part by the state’s failure to raise its untimeliness objections to Parisie’s post-trial motions before the district court. It would be helpful to have in the record the thinking of the district court rather than to be forced to infer merely from the sequence of events how the district court characterized Parisie’s motions and what jurisdictional conclusions it drew from its own characterizations. Denial of rehearing is further supported by the decision of a prior panel of the court (Chief Judge Cummings and Judge Pell) in denying before oral argument the state’s motion to dismiss for the very reasons now urged in the petition for rehearing. The state chose to seek rehearing on jurisdictional grounds rather than on the merits. I do not accept the state’s jurisdictional argument, an argument which has been previously rejected by two different panels of this court. Admittedly we are not barred by any doctrine of repose from examining at any point our own jurisdiction, but as a practical matter the history of decisions here weighs significantly against the state’s argument.