Columbia Insurance Group, Inc. v. Cenark Project Management Services, Inc.

haOn April 14, 2016, a majority of this court answered a question certified to us from the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, despite our venerable practice of not issuing advisory opinions or addressing moot issues. Mendoza v. WIS Int’l, Inc., 2016 Ark. 157, 2016 WL 1554365 (Hart, J., dissenting). In Mendoza, a majority of this court chose to declare Arkansas Code Annotated section 27-37-703, a portion of our mandatory seatbelt-use law, unconstitutional even though the statute in question had no applicability to the factual situation before us. Id. Today’s opinion…