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48 U.S.C. § 1615 — Judicial divisions
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The Virgin Islands consists of two judicial divisions; the Division of Saint Croix, comprising the island of Saint Croix and adjacent islands and cays, and the Division of Saint Thomas and Saint John, comprising the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John and adjacent islands and cays.
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The Virgin Islands consists of two judicial divisions; the Division of Saint Croix, comprising the island of Saint Croix and adjacent islands and cays, and the Division of Saint Thomas and Saint John, comprising the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John and adjacent islands and cays.
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**(a) Appointment; tenure; removal; chief judge; compensation** The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint two judges for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, who shall hold office for terms of ten years and until their successors are chosen and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President for cause. The judge of the district court who is senior in continuous service and who otherwise qualifies under [section 136(a) of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section136/a&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be the chief judge of the court. The salary of a judge of the district court shall be at the rate prescribed for judges of the United States district courts. Whenever it is made to appear that such an assignment is necessary for the proper dispatch of the business of the district court, the chief judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of the United States may assign a judge of a court of record of the Virgin Islands established by local law, or a circuit or district judge of the Third Judicial Circuit, or a recalled senior judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, or the Chief Justice of the United States may assign any other United States circuit or district judge with the consent of the judge so assigned and of the chief judge of his circuit, to serve temporarily as a judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands. The compensation of the judges of the district court and the administrative expenses of the court shall be paid from appropriations made for the judiciary of the United States.
**(b) Criminal offenses; procedure; definitions; indictment and information** Where appropriate, the provisions of part II of title 18 and of title 28 and, notwithstanding the provisions of rule
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**(a) District Court of Guam; unified court system**
(1) The judicial authority of Guam shall be vested in a court established by Congress designated as the “District Court of Guam”, and a judicial branch of Guam which branch shall constitute a unified judicial system and include an appellate court designated as the “Supreme Court of Guam”, a trial court designated as the “Superior Court of Guam”, and such other lower local courts as may have been or shall hereafter be established by the laws of Guam.
(2) The Supreme Court of Guam may, by rules of such court, create divisions of the Superior Court of Guam and other local courts of Guam.
(3) The courts of record for Guam shall be the District Court of Guam, the Supreme Court of Guam, the Superior Court of Guam (except the Traffic and Small Claims divisions of the Superior Court of Guam) and any other local courts or divisions of local courts that the Supreme Court of Guam shall designate.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The District Court of Guam shall have the jurisdiction of a district court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim), and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(c) Original jurisdiction** In addition to the jurisdiction described in subsection (b), the District Court of Guam shall have original jurisdiction in all other causes in Guam, jurisdiction over which is not then vested by the legislature in another court or other courts established by it. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court established by the laws of Guam for the purpos
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The Supreme Court shall have the power to prescribe by general rules, the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions, and the practice and procedure in cases under title 11.
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**(a)** The Supreme Court shall have the power to prescribe general rules of practice and procedure and rules of evidence for cases in the United States district courts (including proceedings before magistrate judges thereof) and courts of appeals.
**(b)** Such rules shall not abridge, enlarge or modify any substantive right. All laws in conflict with such rules shall be of no further force or effect after such rules have taken effect.
**(c)** Such rules may define when a ruling of a district court is final for the purposes of appeal under [section 1291 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1291&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1615
of the United States may assign any other
United States circuit or district judge with the
consent of the judge so assigned and of the chief
judge of his circuit, to serve temporarily as a
judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands.
The compensation of the judges of the district
court and the administrative expenses of the
court shall be paid from appropriations made for
the judiciary of the United States.
(b) Criminal offenses; procedure; definitions; in-
dictment and information
Where appropriate, the provisions of part II of
title 18 and of title 28 and, notwithstanding the
provisions of rule 7(a) and of rule 54(a) of the
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure relating to
the requirement of indictment and to the pros-
ecution of criminal offenses in the Virgin Is-
lands by information, respectively, the rules of
practice heretofore or hereafter promulgated
and made effective by the Congress or the Su-
preme Court of the United States pursuant to ti-
tles 11, 18, and 28 shall apply to the district
court and appeals therefrom: Provided, That the
terms ‘‘Attorney for the government’’ and
‘‘United States attorney’’ as used in the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall, when appli-
cable to causes arising under the income tax
laws applicable to the Virgin Islands, mean the
Attorney General of the Virgin Islands or such
other person or persons as may be authorized by
the laws of the Virgin Islands to act therein:
Provided further, That in the district court all
criminal prosecutions under the laws of the
United States, under local law under section
1612(c) of this title, and under the income tax
laws applicable to the Virgin Islands may be had
by indictment by grand jury or b
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