Brown v. Homer-Doyline Bus Lines

Only upon rare occasions do Courts find it necessary or desirable to assign written reasons for their actions upon applications for rehearing. The temptation to argue the correctness of the opinion on original hearing is always strong and must be firmly resisted by the members of the Court, it being remembered that judges, after all, are lawyers at heart. If an application for rehearing convinces the Court that there is a serious question as to the correctness of its original judgment, it should grant the rehearing, and, in such event, there is no necessity for a written opinion. If, on the…