Court Opinion

ID: 9472959
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:15:39.787906+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:14.857516
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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
Although I think that diversity cases should not be reheard en banc,1 I concur in this opinion because we are remanding the case to obtain the opinion of the state Supreme Court, which alone can furnish us an authoritative state-law decision on issues involved in hundreds of cases pending in the federal district courts.

. See Sturgeon v. Strachan Shipping Co., 731 F.2d 255, 260 (5th Cir.1984) (en banc) (Rubin, J., dissenting); Edwards Co. v. Monogram Indus., Inc., 730 F.2d 977, 987 (5th Cir.1984) (en banc) (Rubin, J., concurring); cf. Nash v. Estelle, 597 F.2d 513, 534 (5th Cir.1979) (en banc) (Rubin, J., dissenting).