Court Opinion

ID: 9468684
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:20:54.214308+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:59.695694
License: Public Domain

GEE, Circuit Judge,
with whom RONEY, TJOFLAT, JAMES C. HILL, ALVIN B. RUBIN, VANCE, POLITZ and RANDALL, Circuit Judges, join, dissenting:
While I fully agree with the majority’s careful and correct discussion of the stare decisis point, I am unable to agree with its treatment of Texas substantive law for reasons set out in my dissent from Maxey v. Freightliner Corp., 665 F.2d 1367 (5th Cir. 1981) (en banc), handed down today. Nor, since I think I know a contradiction when I see one, can I concur in the majority’s logical proposition — crucial to its disposition of both this case and Maxey — that where “some care” is shown there still may be “an entire want of care.” Indeed, I fancy that such suggestions demonstrate why the law is viewed by laymen as mysterious.