Hopkins v. Fox & Lazo Realtors

Caught between a rock and a hard place — the rock of the Court’s somewhat complex explication of the real-estate broker’s duty, and the hard place of the dissent’s near-hysterical forecast of doom, despair, destruction, and the demise of Western civilization — I write but briefly to express my concurrence with the Court’s judgment.

At the outset I confess that (apparently unlike the rest of the Court) I see this case as, in today’s parlance, “no big deal,” in the sense of a cataclysmic change in the law. We just nudge the law forward an inch or so. True, for the first time we apply to…