Court Opinion

ID: 9862532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 01:18:25.53301+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:25:43.685025
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice,
concurring.
Mr. Justice Cappy, on behalf of the court, has authored an excellent opinion, and I join it. I write to express my concern that this is yet another extension of liability in an already too litigious society. Here, in my view, the extension is justified by the circumstances presented, but I would go no further. Yes, one can reason in so many instances that an extension of liability is merely a small step flowing naturally and logically from the existing case law. Yet each seemingly small step, over time, leads to an ever proliferating number of small steps that add up to huge leaps in terms of extensions of liability. At some point it must stop and I would draw the line in this area of the law with what is expressed by the court in this case — no further.