Lewis v. Gibbons

RONNIE L. WHITE,

Judge.

DISSENTING OPINION

I concur fully in the dissenting opinion authored by Judge Wolff. I write separately only to note two additional concerns I have with the principal opinion. First, the majority’s interpretation of the word “prior” is inadequate and unconvincing. Second, and more importantly, I have deep reservations about the majority’s lacklus*468ter treatment of Gibbons’ Equal Protection claim.1

While the majority states that “the purpose of the word ‘prior,’ read within the context of these statutes, includes within it the concept of immediacy, whether stated expressly or…