Court Opinion

ID: 9474293
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:53:25.492212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:00.658480
License: Public Domain

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I join the opinion of the court in all respects except its statement as to the substantive merits of the Indiana Product Liability Act. On this matter, I prefer not to express an opinion.
In cases where our jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship, our task is to ascertain the content of state substantive law and to apply that law to the case before us. In many cases, although not in this one, that task is difficult enough. Absent federal constitutional impediment, it is not our place to take on the additional task of commenting — gratuitously — on the legislative policy choices of a state legislature. Our job is simply to apply those choices once made.