Corns v. School Board of Russell County

SENIOR JUSTICE POFF

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On July 26, 1994, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit entered an order requesting that we invoke our “original jurisdiction ... to answer questions of state law certified by a court of the United States or the highest appellate court of any other state.” Va. Const, art. VI, § 1. By order entered on September 20, 1994, we accepted certification of a question as follows:

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