Hatfield ex rel. Hatfield v. Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital

I respectfully dissent. I cannot in good conscience join in the request for certification in Hatfield and Macku v. Drackett Products Co., No. 82-1150 (8th Cir.) filed this date. The majority opinion in requesting certification in this case to the Nebraska Supreme Court totally misconceives the certification process; furthermore, certification in the present case constitutes an abuse of the judicial process itself. The majority decision gives ringing truth to Justice Cardozo’s aphorism of fifty years ago that “postponement of a remedy [can be] equivalent to a denial of justice altogether.” 1

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