Court Opinion

ID: 9641206
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:25:05.245883+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:35.531578
License: Public Domain

GAMMAGE, Justice,
concurring.
The motion for rehearing before this court properly raises only one issue — the viability of our earlier opinion in Love v. City of Dallas, 120 Tex. 351, 40 S.W.2d 20 (1931). Since nothing in either Edgewood I, 777 S.W.2d 391, or Edgewood II, 804 S.W.2d 491, suggests that Love was overruled, the motion should be overruled without opinion.
Any opinion issued on the motion should narrowly confine itself to the question presented. The majority’s gratuitous action in addressing matters not raised in the motion for rehearing is both unnecessary and inappropriate, amounts to an advisory opinion, and is calculated to further confound and confuse the public and the legislative process.
For these reasons, I concur in the overruling of the motion for rehearing but would have done so without an opinion, and further join Justice Doggett in his concurring opinion.