Court Opinion

ID: 9464946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:47:09.063056+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:53.833946
License: Public Domain

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
Although initially less convinced than my colleagues, I reluctantly concur in the court’s persuasive opinion that this case cannot be salvaged. I do want to emphasize my impression, however, that the fault in this enormously expensive waste of time and trouble lies by no means entirely at the door of the district judge, who commendably sought to seize hold of some means to retrieve a trial gone astray, but also lies *9with the failure of counsel to research and present the controlling local law accurately and adequately. The result of this sad foray is thousands of dollars of expense to the taxpayers and the parties — a sorry comment on the ability of our legal system to resolve what is at bottom an ordinary accounting dispute.