Court Opinion

ID: 9476297
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:52:24.824133+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:14.182762
License: Public Domain

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
Although I agree that our circuit precedent permits the majority to entertain the merits of petitioner’s claims, I write to object to our decisional law that permits the majority to entertain a district court order that does not dispose of all of the petitioner’s claims. The district court never ruled on one of petitioner’s claims. Ante at 1142 n. 7. The trial court thus erroneously entered a “final judgment,” which, by definition, purported to terminate the litigation in full. In my view, Supreme Court precedent, see Andrews v. United States, 373 U.S. 334, 340, 83 S.Ct. 1236, 1240, 10 L.Ed.2d 383 (1963); Collins v. Miller, 252 U.S. 364, 365, 40 S.Ct. 347, 347, 64 L.Ed. 616 (1920), renders a court of appeals powerless to review an order denying a writ of habeas corpus that does not dispose of all the claims that the petitioner presented. See Blake v. Kemp, 758 F.2d 523, 535-43 (11th Cir.) (Tjoflat, J., dissenting), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 106 S.Ct. 374, 88 L.Ed.2d 367 (1985). Being bound, however, to follow our circuit precedent, I reach the merits of this appeal and concur in the majority’s disposition.