Certified question

Definition
1  : a question of state law that may determine the outcome of a case pending in a federal court and that is submitted by the federal court to the state's highest court when there is no controlling state precedent
2  : a question of law submitted to a federal or state court by a lower court or tribunal <appealed the decision on the certified question>



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