Sterling v. Bloom

INTRODUCTION

I fully concur with and join in the scholarly and thorough opinion of the majority. That opinion was exhaustively reviewed and contributed to by each concurring justice. This Court long and carefully considered the applicable law and the arguments of counsel and of our dissenting brother Bakes before rendering its decision. Ultimately, the unambiguous message of the Idaho Tort Claims Act’s language and of the relevant case law compelled our decision. In that sense, this is a judicially conservative decision; it adheres closely to the law as the legislature wrote it and to the…