in Re Certified Question (Deacon v. Pandora)

I join the majority opinion in full and write only to explain why, given my longstanding views on the questionable constitutionality of responding to certified questions from federal courts, I choose to participate in responding to the instant certified question.1

*489As I have stated previously, because of my constitutional reservations about responding to federal certified questions, I believe this Court should, as a prudential matter, “accept and answer certified questions from the federal courts sparingly and only when the Michigan legal issue is a debatable one and pivotal to the federal case…