Court Opinion

ID: 9633603
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:54:01.319554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:55:17.126700
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BISTLINE, Justice,
specially concurring.
Justice Donaldson’s opinion upholding the Commission should be well received. The Commission is also to be commended.
For myself, however, Part IV would have simply overruled Hartley v. Miller-Stephan, 107 Idaho 688, 692 P.2d 332 (1984), for reasons I heretofore stated in 107 Idaho at 691, 692 P.2d at 335. I remain amazed that three of my esteemed colleagues were persuaded to Justice Shepard’s view that the brain was not part of the anatomy of a human being, and that its functional loss or abnormality was not within the purview of the plain language of I.C. § 72-422 which defined permanent impairment. “Personality disorders,” “mental disorders,” and “psychiatric disorders” are as much attributable to an anatomical or functional abnormality or loss as they are to personal circumstances — perhaps more so.