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WV HB2816
Bill
Status
Engrossed
3/31/2025
Primary Sponsor
Joe Funkhouser
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AI Summary
- Prohibits West Virginia courts from relying on legal treatises or secondary sources as authoritative when developing civil case law or common law
- Applies specifically when secondary sources endorse creating or expanding causes of action, theories of liability, legal doctrines, rights, or remedies not already recognized under state law
- Clarifies that provisions in legal treatises written from the perspective of a common law court do not constitute the law or public policy of West Virginia
- Restricts judicial use of secondary sources only when the legal theory or remedy was not expressly recognized at the time the lawsuit was filed
Legislative Description
Relating to clarifying secondary sources are not the law and public policy of West Virginia in certain instances
Insurance
Last Action
On 2nd reading, rereferred to Judiciary
4/9/2025
Committee Referrals
Judiciary4/1/2025
Judiciary2/24/2025
Full Bill Text
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