Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Williams ex rel. Raymond v. Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided September 6, 2012No. 2011-CA-00375-SCTPublished

1Concurrence

RANDOLPH, Justice,

specially concurring:

¶ 34. I write separately to reject the dissents’ attempt unreasonably to expand and stretch the parameters of the “circle of reasonable foreseeability” (Mauney v. Gulf Refining Co., 193 Miss. 421, 9 So.2d 780, 781 (1942)), and to contravene the doctrine of stare decisis by denuding a thirty-three-year-old decision (Robinson v. Howard Brothers of Jackson, Inc., 372 So.2d 1074 (Miss.1979)), while disclaiming an attempt to overrule same.

¶35. Preliminarily, neither I nor the Mississippi Legislature can subscribe to Presiding Justice Dickinson’s overarching…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Cannon v. University of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Alexander v. SandovalSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
  3. Caves v. YarbroughMississippi Supreme Court · 2008
  4. Glover v. Jackson State UniversityMississippi Supreme Court · 2007
  5. Munford, Inc. v. PetersonMississippi Supreme Court · 1979

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