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Superior Court of Guam [3] Federal courts located in Guam. District Court of Guam [4] References This page was last edited on 22 December 2024, at 03: ...
The District Court of Guam [1] (in case citations, D. Guam) is a United States territorial court with jurisdiction over the United States territory of Guam. It sits in the capital, Hagåtña . Appeals of the court's decisions are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit .
The Supreme Court of Guam is the highest judicial body of the United States territory of Guam.The Court hears all appeals from the Superior Court of Guam and exercises original jurisdiction only in cases where a certified question is submitted to it by a U.S. federal court, the Governor of Guam, or the Guam Legislature.
The insular areas of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands each have one territorial court; these courts are called "district courts" and exercise the same jurisdiction as district courts, [2] [3] but differ from district courts in that territorial courts are Article IV courts, with judges who serve ten-year ...
In 1974, Public Law 12-85, the Court Reorganization Act would substantially alter the judicial jurisdiction of the local island court and rename it the Superior Court of Guam. The Superior Court was given jurisdiction over all cases arising out of Guam laws. The District Court retained its appellate function. Under the act establishing the ...
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a judge's 2021 ruling that blocked enforcement of the law, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year overturning the ...
On September 11, 2012, Governor Eddie Baza Calvo appointed Cenzon to be a Judge of the Superior Court of Guam. She received a unanimous vote in the 31st Guam Legislature and was sworn in on December 20, 2012. [1]
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