Court Opinion

ID: 9691572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 20:40:44.024585+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:22.824057
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Caporale, J.,
concurring.
I agree that in the absence of a constitutional challenge to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-222 (Reissue 1995), this court could do nothing more than apply its prior definition of “professional” and conclude that under the circumstances in this case, the employees of the defendant, State National Bank and Trust Company, were not such. Eschewing, upon more mature reflection, the references to the legislative record made in my concurrence in Tylle v. Zoucha, 226 Neb. 476, 412 N.W.2d 438 (1987), see, e.g., Southern Neb. Rural P.P. Dist. v. Nebraska Electric, 249 Neb. 913, 546 N.W.2d 315 (1996) (Caporale, J., concurring, joined by Lanphier, J.), I nonetheless adhere to my earlier conclusion that this court’s case-by-case analysis of the issue in an effort to save the Legislature’s enactment of § 25-222 is overambitious. The judicial experience following our decision in Tylle makes it clearer than ever that the Legislature’s failure to articulate a meaningful classificatory scheme requires the courts to do more than apply a legislatively defined classification to a particular set of facts.
McCormack, J., joins in this concurrence.