Court Opinion

ID: 9771346
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:39:33.857157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:28.712929
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Tom Glaze, Justice, concurring. Appellant appealed from the trial court’s summary judgment order, but failed to abstract that order and some other matters that the appellee believed were fatal to appellant’s appeal pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 9. In denying the appellee’s motion to affirm under Rule 9, this court allowed the appellant to supplement her abstract and now awards costs to the appellee because second briefs were required as a result of the appellant’s having obtained leave to file a substituted abstract. Previously, this court has held repeatedly that a flagrant violation of Rule 9 occurs when the order or decree is not abstracted. As I understand what the court has done, an appellant may now correct his or her abstract of record after the appellee points out a flagrant violation of Rule 9, but the appellee will be entitled to the costs incurred which result from the appellant’s abstracting error; the appellee may not, however, be entitled to an affirmance. Because I think Rule 9 is too harsh, I agree with the court’s decision in this cause and would hope that this is some indication that the court will modify Rule 9 with the idea of providing a better means than a summary affirmance of an appeal to ensure a sufficient record is provided by parties or their attorneys for this court’s review.