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[CITE: 48USC1424-1]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--THE JUDICIARY
 
Sec. 1424-1. Local courts; composition; appellate court; 
        jurisdiction; practice and procedure; qualifications and duties 
        of judges
        

(a) Composition; establishment of appellate court

    The local courts of Guam shall consist of such trial court or courts 
as may have been or may hereafter be established by the laws of Guam. On 
or after the effective date of this Act, the legislature of Guam may in 
its discretion establish an appellate court.

(b) Jurisdiction

    The legislature may vest in the local courts jurisdiction over all 
causes in Guam 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 exclusive or concurrent 
jurisdiction conferred on the District Court of Guam by section 1424(b) 
of this title.

(c) Practice and procedure; qualifications and duties of judges

    The practice and procedure in the local courts and the 
qualifications and duties of the judges thereof shall be governed by the 
laws of Guam and the rules of those courts.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 22A, as added Pub. L. 98-454, title VIII, 
Sec. 801, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1742.)

                       References in Text

    The effective date of this Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is the 
effective date of title VIII of Pub. L. 98-454, which is 90 days after 
Oct. 5, 1984.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective on ninetieth day following Oct. 5, 1984, see 
section 1005 of Pub. L. 98-454, set out as an Effective Date of 1984 
Amendment note under section 1424 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1424, 1424-2, 1424-3 of this 
title.
