Court Opinion

ID: 9797954
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:33:04.102927+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:54.949320
License: Public Domain

WILKINS, Associate Chief Justice,
concurring in the result:
{28 I concur in the analysis and result reached in Section I, and the overall analysis and the results reached in Sections III and IV. I agree that section 78-12-25.1 is not applicable to the claims brought by the plaintiffs against Utah Youth Village, but having reached that conclusion, see no need to go further.
129 Chief Justice Durham has presented her case for "recognizing" a cause of action for negligent placement. I see no need to do so for two reasons. First, the question is not raised as a matter of importance in the appeal by either party. Second, the existing law relating to negligence is sufficient to deal with a wide variety of cases, including this one, and the "recognition" of additional specific causes of action simply invites the later "discovery" of a variety of other new rights and remedies. I think it unnecessary and unwise to reach the question at all.
1 30 Justice DURRANT coneurs in Associate Chief Justice WILKINS concurring opinion.