Gillmor v. Wright

GREGORY K. ORME, Court of Appeals Judge

(concurring).

I concur in the court’s opinion. I write separately only to address the law of the case doctrine, which I believe was viewed with undue reverence by Judge Murphy, probably because the prior determination had been made by a fellow judge who previously had the Summit County assignment. Because this issue recurs with some frequency in counties served by rotating judges, I think we should clarify the matter even though the parties, in the press of debating the merits of the judgment ulti*439mately entered, have not paused to address this link in the…