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that these judges shall sit in panels.
I am concerner .hat the General Assembly
would say, well, we think there ought to be nine
judges in order to take care of the business of the court
but they will never take care of that business if all nine
sit together. They will take care of that businessif
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they can sit in panels of three; so that in effect you
really would have three courts, three panels of three
could be operating at any one time.
The amendment accomplishes this by striking out
those words on line 59 in section 5.06 which s that
the court, the Court of Appeals, not even this court,
not the intermediate appellate court, but the highest
court can by its rule set up the panel, because then, as
I understand this, the committee's proposal, the last
section, which is section 551, would be operative in that
it says except as to matters specifically provided to be
taken care of by rule; then both the court, the Court of
Appeals and the General Assembly have the power to
establish or to make the rule to establish these panels.
I think the practical effect of that would be that the