District Court of Virgin Islands; local courts; jurisdiction; practice and procedure
United States Code
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- 2024Lynch v. Donnelly D.V.I.
- 2024Limetree Bay Terminals, LLC v. Liger
- 2022In Re: Refinery Workers Toxic Tort Litigation
- 2021Duncan v. GVI D.V.I.
- 2018Vooys v. Bentley 3rd Cir.
- 2018Victoria Vooys v. Maria Bentley 3rd Cir.
- 2017Mitchell v. Mullgrav V.I.
- 2017Fahie v. People 3d Cir.
- 2017Tropic Leisure Corp. v. Hailey N.C. App. Ct.
- 2016Jean-Baptiste v. Virgin Islands Taxicab Commission & Government V.I. Super. Ct.
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The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in a court of record designated the “District Court of the Virgin Islands” established by Congress, and in such appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law. The legislature of the Virgin Islands may vest in the courts of the Virgin Islands established by local law jurisdiction over all causes in the Virgin Islands over which any court established by the Constitution and laws of the United States does not have exclusive jurisdiction. Such jurisdiction shall be subject to the concurrent jurisdiction conferred on the District Court of the Virgin Islands by section 1612(a) and (c) of this title. The rules governing the practice and procedure of the courts established by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and duties of the judges and officers thereof, oaths and bonds, and the times and places of holding court shall be governed by local law or the rules promulgated by those courts. (Source: (July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 21, 68 Stat. 506; Pub. L. 98–454, title VII, § 702, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1737.))