Court Opinion

ID: 9570907
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:27:28.877562+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:22:10.344380
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Ingram, Justice,
concurring specially in Division 6 of the opinion.
I am reluctant to add to the volume of the court’s opinion in this case because of its already burdensome length. Nevertheless, I am constrained to express my discontent with the brevity of our holding in Division 6 of the court’s opinion. It rules on the issue presented and I agree it is correct. But, I find it just as incomplete as the Act itself in requiring the deposit of anonymous contributions with the state. The Act does not require state confiscation of these funds but it fails to provide what is to be done with them. Hopefully, there will be none or that future legislation will cure this omission as well as correct the other deficiencies in the Act which are pointed out in the main opinion. In the interim, I would suggest that perhaps any anonymous contributions will eventually become a part of the general treasury of the state if no claimant casts aside his cloak of anonymity *488and steps forward within a reasonable time to establish his ownership to a specific contribution. How this can be handled is an enigma under the present Act. But I think we need to express the opinion that even under the present Act, the funds must be regarded as escrow monies that belong to the contributor and he must have a reasonable opportunity to recover them from the state before they are allowed to flow into the main body of public revenues to disappear forever from private ownership.
I am authorized to state that Justice Hall concurs in this special concurrence.