Court Opinion

ID: 9492312
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:37:50.427441+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:14.478609
License: Public Domain

GILMAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I concur in Judge Clay’s dissent, except for Part I of his opinion. As much as I sympathize with the result reached by the majority, I do not find any justifiable way to ignore the clear requirements of Rule 3(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court.
In my opinion, the consequence of failing to name the court to which the appeal is taken is unduly harsh in a case such as the one before us. But we are not at liberty to act as free-wheeling chancellors of old, riding roughshod over rules that in our opinion are inequitable. The rule of law requires that such a change come from either Congress or the Supreme Court, which I in fact would urge be done. In the meantime, I agree with the wisdom of President Ulysses S. Grant’s statement that “the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it.” See State ex rel. Skilton v. Miller, 164 Ohio St. 163, 128 N.E.2d 47, 52 (1955) (Stewart, J., dissenting).