Interstate Brands Corp. v. Stephens

I concur in this decision because I believe that there can be no jurisdictional time limit on the exercise of judicial power to transfer a small claim to another docket of the district court.

Our fundamental law expressly mandates an omnicompetent single-tier trial court.1 This constitutional tribunal cannot be splintered “into rigidly divided compartments with [a] tightly restricted inter-divisional movement of cases.” 2 No legislatively-prescribed time limit that affects — directly or obliquely — the inter-docket transfer of cases within the district court may hence be treated as a…