Ira Blake Phillips v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

*861JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge, with whom TATE, Circuit Judge,

joins, dissenting:

I dissent to the failure of this Court to grant rehearing en banc to thereby certify the underlying question of Georgia law to the Supreme Court of Georgia. To the reasons advanced in my dissent to the panel opinion, Phillips v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., 651 F.2d 1051,1057 (5th Cir. 1981) I would add these comments.

I would emphasize again that certification is needed to get “firsthand authoritative word from the Supreme Court of Georgia, not on what the decided precedents reveal, but on what Georgia would now…