Court Opinion

ID: 9528072
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:36:49.803998+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:26:27.363933
License: Public Domain

GIVAN, Chief Justice,
concurring in result.
I agree with the majority opinion; however, I disagree with the practice of using an opinion to change the rules of Indiana practice. It is not that I disapprove of what the opinion attempts to do.
I think attorneys should be entitled to turn to the rule book and get a succinct statement as to what the rule of procedure is in a given instance. I feel it is a hardship on the Bar to have to search through the advance sheets to ascertain what changes in the rules might have been brought about by a recent opinion. If we were to adopt a general policy of rule changing in this manner, it would be a relatively short period of time until somebody would have to write a book to gather the various cases changing the rules in order for the Bar to have an understanding of the procedures of Indiana.
PIVARNIK, J., concurs.