Definitions
Known as the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act
The act spans §§ 51-1A-1 to 51-1A-9 (13 sections).
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case 206 W. Va. 133 - Bower v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1999)
Most recently applied in Brickstreet Mutual Insurance Co. v. Zurich American Insurance Co. (June 2017)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in this article:
(1) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(2) "Tribe" means a native American tribe, band or village recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.