Court Opinion

ID: 9856855
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 07:02:10.541083+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:27.622314
License: Public Domain

BISTLINE, Justice,
dissenting.
Advice is worth what you pay for it, but nevertheless I strongly recommend to the trial court bar that it become more involved and concerned with this Court’s rule promulgating procedures. Court recommended instructions are not a boon to the profession. Better the Supreme Court stick to its appellate function.
In earlier days in the Idaho practice of law attorneys submitted requested instructions which gave the court the benefit of those proposed instructions, plus it prepared instructions of its own. When there was a question on appeal relative to instructions, the Supreme Court ruled, and in that way instructions were formulated. Being unable to see how this ease, or any case for that matter, should be wholly governed by Hilden v. Ball, and in particular the “but for” instruction contained therein, I do not join the Court’s opinion. Hilden, 117 Idaho 314, 319, 787 P.2d 1122, 1127 (1989). On rereading the Hilden opinion, I fail to see that this Court held that “IDJI 230 is a correct statement of the law.” West Publishing Company did not see it as a holding. It is an abomination arising out of an aberration, as was well pointed out in my initial dissent to the initial opinion and my dissent to the opinion on rehearing. See Hilden v. Ball, 117 Idaho at 318-33, 338-43, 787 P.2d at 1126-41, 1146-51.