Frank v. Bunker Hill Co.

PART I.

Of the five members of the Court who first heard the oral argument over thirty months ago, only Justice Bakes and I remain to participate in what may be the last hurrah for Paul Frank. Frank’s only remedy under Idaho law is the “sure and certain relief” which the Workers’ Compensation Act provides in lieu of the preexisting and now precluded right of a worker to obtain the damages awardable to him by a jury of his peers who learn of his injuries and the cause of those injuries at a trial in the county where he has lived and worked all his life. The reader of the first majority opinion,…