Opinion ID: 2635368
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Heading: enabling statute/standard of review

Text: The Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, K.S.A. 60-3201 et seq., provides that the Kansas Supreme Court  may answer questions of law certified to it by ... a United States district court ... when requested by the certifying court if there are involved in any proceeding before it questions of law of this state which may be determinative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as to which it appears to the certifying court there is no controlling precedent in the decisions of the supreme court and the court of appeals of this state. (Emphasis added.) K.S.A. 60-3201. We review certified questions using an unlimited standard. American Family Mut. Ins. Co. v. Wilkins, 285 Kan. 1054, 1058, 179 P.3d 1104 (2008).