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Rule 452. Opinions To Be Brief

TEXT

Opinions of the Courts of Civil Appeals shall be as brief as practicable, and shall avoid as far as possible lengthy quotations from other decisions or texts; and where the issues involved have been clearly settled by authority or elementary principles of law, the court shall write only brief memorandum opinions. Opinions shall be ordered not published when they present no question or application of any rule of law of interest or importance to the jurisprudence of the State.

Source: New rule.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.

AMENDMENTS

June 16, 1943, eff. Dec. 31, 1943

April 15, 1982, eff. Aug. 15, 1982

Repealed by order of April 10, 1986, eff. Sept. 1, 1986.