Court Opinion

ID: 9742131
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:07:13.719899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:28.718880
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ROBERTSON, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. This is enormously complex litigation. The slip opinion of this court’s decision in Shell Oil Co., Union Oil Co. v. Meyer, 684 N.E.2d 504, 514 (Ind.Ct.App.1997) is 48 pages long and deals with the interpretation of a whole bunch of federal statutes and cases. Transfer is pending before our supreme court.
Under the doctrine of stare decisis, we follow precedent from other districts of this court and may repudiate those decisions only if strong reason exists to do so. Lincoln Utilities, Inc. v. Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, 661 N.E.2d 562, 565 (Ind.Ct.App.1996), trans. denied. As the Meyer decision was comprehensively dealt with by our court, and our supreme court will have an opportunity to judge its correctness, principles of stare decisis and judicial economy prompt me to vote to affirm the present, discretionary, interlocutory appeal of the denial of summary judgment.