Court Opinion

ID: 9647190
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:26:08.677135+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:46.402918
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BILLINGS, Judge,
concurring.
I concur. I write only to quote the wisdom of Dean Pound:
The opinions of the judge of the highest court of a state are no place for intemperate denunciation of the judge’s colleagues, violent invective, attributings of bad motives to the majority of the court, and insinuations of incompetence, negligence, prejudice, or obtuseness of fellow members of the court.
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Constitutions and justice according to law are today under attack throughout the world_ Maintenance of our char*495acteristic American constitutional-legal polity demands that the courts hold, as they have held in the past, the respect and confidence of the public. What amounts to attacks upon our courts from within, however well intentioned and motivated ... are highly unfortunate_
Roscoe Pound, Cacoethes Dissentiendi: The Heated Judicial Dissent, 39 Amer.B. Assn.J. 794 (1953).