Neal v. Wilson

There is so much in the majority opinion with which I take issue that it is hard to know where to start, but the holding that Judge John Lineberger was “properly assigned jurisdiction of this case” without any authority or discussion of the inherent underlying conflict between his assignment and the constitutional and statutory authority of the duly elected, sitting circuit judge for the First Judicial District is as good a place as any. The propriety of Judge Lineberger’s assignment, and not the refusal of Judge Oily Neal to disqualify is the real issue presently before us, and there is no…