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SOUTHLAND FARMS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 89-7730.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    April 30, 1991.
    Bayless E. Biles, Taylor D. Wilkins, Jr., Wilkins, Bankester, Biles & Wynne, Bay Minette, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.
    William W. Watts, III, W. Dewitt Reams, Victor T. Hudson, Reams, Vollmer, Philips, Killion, Brooks & Schell, Mobile, Ala., for defendant-appellee.
    Before HATCHETT, Circuit Judge, RONEY  and FAIRCHILD , Senior Circuit Judges.
    
      
      
        See Rule 34-2(b), Rules of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
    
    
      
       Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild, Senior U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

This court certified this case to the Supreme Court of Alabama requesting that Court to answer the following question:

Whether the disclaimer on Ciba-Geigy's product is unconscionable and precludes the recovery of consequential damages.

The Alabama Supreme Court has held that the disclaimer precludes the recovery of consequential damages. Southland Farms, Inc. v. Ciba-Geigy Corp., 575 So.2d 1077 (1991).

In light of the Supreme Court of Alabama’s decision and for the reasons stated therein, the district court’s decision is affirmed.

AFFIRMED.