Brown v. Associates Financial Services Corp.

1. I must dissent from the majority opinion dismissing this appeal.

A type of non-evolving constancy, permanency, and stability is *556needed in the law, particularly where statutory interpretations are involved distinguishing between direct and discretionary appeals. “The location of such issues on the legal landscape assuages an anxiety over instability and reaffirms the illusion that jurisprudential order is marked by a satisfying security of constancy. In this fashion, the debilitating awkwardness of transition is countered, and the notion is perpetuated that permanency is patently possible.”…