Court Opinion

ID: 9565746
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:26:45.487352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:52.131593
License: Public Domain

OPALA, Justice,
concurring specially:
The court is correct when it rejects today, on grounds of doubtful historicity, the widely assumed notion that the common-law rule of sovereign immunity from tort liability extends a shield of protection as to all county functions, governmental and proprietary. Even if I were not convinced that our result here rests on solid historical antecedents, I would nonetheless concur in the court’s opinion because, in my view, the common-law rule no longer merits our continued recognition in any form. Our commitment to that norm of judge-made law should be withdrawn prospectively for the reasons advanced in my concurring opinion in Walton v. Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., Okl., 590 P.2d 1190, 1194-1195 [1979].