Court Opinion

ID: 9511822
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:08:34.170471+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:11.923084
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE COTTER
concurs.
¶ 22 I concur in the result the Court reaches, but not in all that is said in the Opinion. Specifically, I disagree with ¶ 18, in which the Court rejects application of the “savings statute” in part because Hawkes voluntarily terminated his first state court case. I submit that the “savings statute” would be properly applied only to any state court case filed after the federal case was dismissed; it would not reach back to the initial state court action filed before the federal action. Thus, I believe the initial state court action has no relevance to application of the “savings statute” to the instant case. This being said, however, I concur with the rationale offered by the Court in ¶ 19, and would affirm on that basis.