Court Opinion

ID: 9672119
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:49:17.709534+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:14.381040
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Caporale, J.,
concurring.
I write separately only to note that I continue to think that Millman v. County of Butler, 235 Neb. 915, 458 N.W.2d 207 (1990) (Fahrnbruch, J., dissenting; joined by White and Caporale, JL), was wrongly decided. Nonetheless, I recognize and accept that the majority of the court reasoned otherwise. I further accept that unless Millman is to be overturned, it controls the jurisdictional issue presented by this case.
As has been noted before, “ ‘in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right. . . . This is commonly true even where the error is a matter of serious concern, provided correction can be had by legislation.’ ” State v. Hingst, 251 Neb. 535, 539, 557 N.W.2d 681, 684 (1997) (Cassel, D.J., concurring, quoting Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co., 285 U.S. 393, 52 S. Ct. 443, 76 L. Ed. 815 (1932) (Brandéis, J., dissenting)).
I therefore concur in the judgment of the court.