Davis v. Sloman

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• holding that the Ohio Supreme Court has the power under the Ohio Constitution to answer questions certified to it by a federal court
• concluding that the \nonenjoyment clause\ constitutes a restraint on the transfer of the beneficiary's interest
• stating that “certification frees federal courts from having to guess how state courts will decide important questions of state law”
• stating that “certification frees federal courts from having to guess how state courts will decide important questions of state law”
• “The state’s sovereignty is unquestionably implicated when federal courts construe state law. If the federal court errs, it applies law other than Ohio law, in derogation of the state’s right to prescribe a ‘rule of decision’ ”
• “Certification ensures that federal courts will properly apply state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).