Court Opinion

ID: 9797296
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 04:17:54.581163+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:54:22.312291
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WATT, J.
dissenting by reason of stare decisis: 1
{ 1 The majority reaches its result by relying on materials attached to the petition for rehearing filed in the Court of Civil Appeals. Neither this Court nor the Court of Civil Appeals may consider as part of an appellate record any instrument or material which has not been incorporated into the assembled record by a certificate of the court clerk.2 Therefore, I cannot concur in the majority opinion.
T2 Rather than consider extraneous materials, I would overrule Watson v. Gibson Capital, L.L.C., 2008 OK 56, 187 P.3d 785 holding that a client-filed paper, to be effective, must either bear the lawyer's signature or be preceded by the filing in the case of a document that discharges the lawyer. Because the majority has not done so, I dissent in deference to stare decisis.

. See vote in Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Corporation Comm'n, 1979 OK 17, 595 P.2d 423.

. Dubuc v. Sirmons, 2001 OK 57, fn. 18, 93 P.3d 780.