Opinion ID: 776312
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: the sanchez question

Text: 36 A panel of this Court interpreted § 82.004 in Sanchez, and two other panels followed that interpretation in Harris and Davis. Absent a subsequent state court decision or statutory amendment which makes this Court's decision clearly wrong, this Court will deny this and any future motion to certify questions related to the correctness of our Sanchez decision. Lee, 592 F.2d at 272. We also take this opportunity to issue the caveat to future litigants that, absent a contrary Texas Supreme Court opinion or a legislative amendment to § 82.004, we shall henceforth consider our Erie guesses in Sanchez, Harris, Davis, and this case to be settled law in this Circuit as to the applicability and interpretation of § 82.004 in regard to tobacco being an inherently unsafe product, and further appeals may be deemed frivolous by this Court.