Schlieter v. Carlos

How courts have described this case

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• concluding 7 that an appellate court “should exercise its discretion to decide the certified questions only with a full record before it, so that any decision on the constitutionality of [a statute] would not be based upon anecdotal and speculative argument”
• “It is an enduring principle of constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions unless required to do so.”
• \It is an enduring principle of constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions unless required to do so.\
• “It is an enduring principle of constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions unless required to do so.”
• “It is an enduring principle of 6 constitutional jurisprudence that courts will avoid deciding constitutional questions 7 unless required to do so.”
• if “questions certified to us ... are not accompanied by sufficient nonhypothetical, evidentiary facts to allow us to adequately determine” answers, court might decline to answer

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