Rule Proposed to Permit Citation of Non-precedential Superior Court Opinions

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | December 31, 2016

No. 1,295

The Legal Intelligencer reports that a proposed rule is about to be published permitting citation of non-precedential Superior Court Opinions for their persuasive value, but not as authority.  The reason for the rule permitting non-precedential opinions is the heavy workload of the Court.

Although these opinions do not appear in the official reports, they can be found in Google Scholar.  This ban is frequently ignored by brief writers and, alas, by bloggers.

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