Court Opinion

ID: 9694908
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:00:21.940549+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:06.862918
License: Public Domain

Cavanagh, C.J.
(concurring). I am in general agreement with the majority’s holding and analysis. To the extent that an underlying appeal involves an issue of law, decision making on the likely success of that appeal should be reserved to the court. Since the early days of the republic, our legal system has required the court, not the jury, to declare what the law is. The unusual procedural posture of an appellate malpractice case does not warrant abrogation of this well-established and constitutional mandate. Despite my basic accordance, I write separately to distance myself from the majority’s discourse on the "rule of law” and the process of legal decision making. While scholarly, the majority’s exposition on such matters is *609unnecessary to the holding in this case, and I regard it as dicta.
Accordingly, I respectfully concur.