Court Opinion

ID: 9797590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:24:53.352397+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:57:22.075656
License: Public Domain

OPALA, J.,
concurring in the court’s opinion.
¶ 1 The qualifiedly concurring justice invites the court, once again, to expand its inquiry beyond the issues necessary to decide. Mindful as I am of the time-honored principle that appellate courts may not extend their pronouncements beyond the strict framework of matters that must be resolved, I join the court in declining his tempting offer. Myers v. Lashley, 2002 OK 14, 44 P.3d 553, 561. See Patterson v. Beall, 2000 OK 92, 19 P.3d 839, 849-50 (Opala, J., dissenting), for my warning against “hyper-global” pronouncements.