Court Opinion

ID: 9776242
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:28:21.47997+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:36.181026
License: Public Domain

SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORANDUM ON MOTIONS FOR REHEARING
BLACKMAR, Judge.
Both parties have filed motions for rehearing. It is unusual for the winning party to do so, but I can understand the confusion because of the Court’s stubborn insistence on the dicta contained in the first paragraph of Part II. I am sure that lawyers and judges will likewise be confused by this paragraph, which pronounces a part of the decree void but then proceeds to give it effect. The authority of the case, however, is determined by the result and not by unnecessary pronouncements. The opinion, then, sustains the exercise of equitable jurisdiction.