Court Opinion

ID: 9507609
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:24:15.887052+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:21.510509
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE SHEA,
specially concurring:
I join in the result but adhere to my opinion that findings and conclusions adopted verbatim by a judge without any supporting indication that the case was independently considered and decided, are, among other things, in violation of Canon 19 of the Canons of Judicial Ethics. Beyond this, however, a judge owes it to his profession, to the parties, to the lawyers, and to the public, to provide the indicia that he, rather than the lawyer, has done the necessary work leading to a decision. Verbatim parroting of findings and conclusions, with nothing more, hardly fulfills these duties.