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[CITE: 48USC1424-2]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--THE JUDICIARY
 
Sec. 1424-2. Relations between courts of United States and 
        courts of Guam; review by United States Court of Appeals for 
        Ninth Circuit; reports to Congress; rules
        
    The relations between the courts established by the Constitution or 
laws of the United States and the local courts of Guam with respect to 
appeals, certiorari, removal of causes, the issuance of writs of habeas 
corpus, and other matters or proceedings shall be governed by the laws 
of the United States pertaining to the relations between the courts of 
the United States, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and 
the courts of the several States in such matters and proceedings: 
Provided, That for the first fifteen years following the establishment 
of the appellate court authorized by section 1424-1(a) of this title, 
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit shall have 
jurisdiction to review by writ of certiorari all final decisions of the 
highest court of Guam from which a decision could be had. The Judicial 
Council of the Ninth Circuit shall submit reports to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House of Representatives at intervals of five years 
following the establishment of such appellate court as to whether it has 
developed sufficient institutional traditions to justify direct review 
by the Supreme Court of the United States from all such final decisions. 
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit shall have 
jurisdiction to promulgate rules necessary to carry out the provisions 
of this subsection.\1\
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``section.''
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(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 22B, as added Pub. L. 98-454, title VIII, 
Sec. 801, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1742; amended Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 17(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4595.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' for 
``Interior and Insular Affairs'' before ``of the House''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.


                             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.
