Court Opinion

ID: 9525364
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:02:38.204302+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:14:25.998379
License: Public Domain

DeBRULER, Justice,
dissenting.
The initiation of a review proceeding such as this in a trial court for the first time is an event with highly significant implications for the nearest and dearest interest of the individual parties involved. The birth of the review case like the birth of an ordinary lawsuit, brings with it the blessings of additional court related charges, attorney fees, witness and investigation costs, and requirements for the expenditure of additional personal time and effort. It calls for new and different decisions to be made. Therefore, basic notions of fairness and justice require that notice of this further evolution of the basic dispute and change of forum from administrative tribunal to the court system be the same as that required when filing a new legal claim. The individual party, therefore, ought to receive the notice of initiation, and not the person’s spouse, child, parent, neighbor, lawyer, doctor or priest; because it is the individual person’s interest which is anew at stake, and that of no other. I agree with the majority opinion of the Third District that Judge Ryan’s order, dismissing the review proceeding because service upon the lawyer who had been representing the party in the administrative tribunal was insufficient to vest jurisdiction in the court, was correct.