The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia may reformulate a question certified to it.
W. Va. Code § 51-1A-4
Power to amend question
Known as the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act
The act spans §§ 51-1A-1 to 51-1A-9 (13 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 206 W. Va. 133 - Bower v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1999)
Most recently applied in Delorice Bragg v. United States (July 2012)
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.