Court Opinion

ID: 9578042
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:40:56.190043+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:22:26.979224
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MOSK, J., Concurring and Dissenting—I
concur in the judgment as to the principles of law involved. I do not agree with the dispositive order.
These plaintiffs initiated the lawsuit in 1970. Their judgment became final in January 1975. In July 1975 they sought recovery from the state fund. After all the lengthy administrative and judicial proceedings that followed, my colleagues now send them back again to the Court of Appeal.
I suggest that after 11 years of litigation we should without further delay reach all the issues raised rather than to impose upon the litigants and the judiciary the burden, in terms of cost, effort and delay, of an additional proceeding, perhaps to be followed by still another petition *81for hearing to this court. There comes a time when finality of decision becomes almost as important as decision itself. That time has arrived in this case.
Bird, C. J., concurred.