Court Opinion

ID: 9587779
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:26:08.362072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:17.517564
License: Public Domain

SUMMERS, Justice,
concurring,
The legislature has undertaken to change the law as it pertains to a judge-prepared minute entry. Title 12 O.S.Supp.1993 § 696.-2(c) effective October 1, 1993 provides:
“The following shall not constitute a judgment, decree, or appealable order: A minute entry....”
I- concur in today’s opinion because this controversy pre-dates the statutory change. Section 23 of Title 12 states that the appearance docket is to contain an abstract of orders and judgments rendered, and that “Either the judge or the clerk may prepare an appearance docket entry in the form of a minute, or the content of the entry may be dictated either by the judge or the clerk into an electronic recording device.” (Emphasis mine) Thus under that section a judge may make a minute that is an appearance docket entry, which contains an abstract of an order or judgment. However, under pre-October 1993 law (as here), when a judge-signed minute contained all the provisions that a court directed or ordered it became something more than a minute entry; it was an order or judgment of the court. 12 O.S.1991 §§ 32.3, 1116.
I am authorized to state that Justice Kau-ger joins in these views.