Court Opinion

ID: 9850053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:51:37.270309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:31.021261
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BISTLINE, Justice,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
Other than where the Court’s opinion cites with approval Hatfield v. Max Rouse & Sons, Inc., 100 Idaho 840, 606 P.2d 944 (1980), an opinion which, in my view, was result-oriented and rampant with error (Cheney v. Palos Verdes, 104 Idaho 897, 665 P.2d 661 (1983) Bistline, J., specially concurring), I concur in today’s opinion and concur in the judgment1 as well, although in my view there is authority for affirming en toto. See, for instance, Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., 372 U.S. 108, 83 S.Ct. 659, 9 L.Ed.2d 618 (1963); Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd., 369 U.S. 355, 82 S.Ct. 780, 7 L.Ed.2d 798 (1962); United Airlines v. Wiener, 335 F.2d 379 (9th Cir.1964). On the validity of damage for emotional distress, see the recent case of Schultz v. *713Barberton Glass Co., 4 Ohio St.3d 131, 447 N.E.2d 109 (1983), and cases relied upon therein from the jurisdictions of New York, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. “Having carefully examined the arguments in support of the contemporaneous physical injury rule, it is clear that continued adherence to the rule makes little sense.” Schultz, 447 N.E.2d at 112.

. It is my understanding that the judgment of the district court is affirmed, provided that each of the plaintiffs files with the district court an agreement to submit to remittiturs in amounts of $8,000 or $8,500, and that as to those plaintiffs who do not do so, their judgments will be set aside and a new trial ordered on the issue of damages only.