Gary Rawson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

All panel members occasionally are tempted to ignore or reject a prior decision by another panel because it is inconvenient or, worse, objectionable. However, without being lawless, we are not at liberty to do so because of the clear and uniform rule that only the en banc court may reject established circuit authority. See United *923States v. Villano, 816 F.2d 1448, 1450 (10th Cir.1987) (en banc) (en banc rehearing granted “to consider the propriety of changing [our] established rule”); Wion v. United States, 325 F.2d 420, 425 (10th Cir. 1963) (en banc) (en banc court convened “to reexamine our…