Court Opinion

ID: 9527791
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:34:16.051706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:26:12.192726
License: Public Domain

Krivosha, C. J.,
dissenting.
It is said that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. While it is not my desire to run with the hobgoblins, *76nevertheless I do believe that consistency in this case is desirable. For reasons more fully set out in my dissent in Lum v. Mattley, 208 Neb. 789, 305 N.W.2d 878 (1981), I likewise dissent in this case. Perhaps the solution to the problem and the apparent inconsistency lies with the Legislature. The inconsistent position we have created between licensed agencies on the one hand and private placement on the other does not, in my view, make much sense either legally or as a matter of policy.