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Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

Part IV · Chapter 81 — Supreme Court

§ 1260. Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands; certiorari

Statutory text

Final judgments or decrees rendered by the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands may be reviewed by the Supreme Court by writ of certiorari where the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States is drawn in question or where the validity of a statute of the Virgin Islands is drawn in question on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is specially set up or claimed under the Constitution or the treaties or statutes of, or any commission held or authority exercised under, the United States.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 112–226 § 2(a) · 126 Stat. 1606

    Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1260

    (Added Pub. L. 112–226, § 2(a), Dec. 28, 2012, 126 Stat. 1606.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 112–226, § 2(a), Dec. 28, 2012, 126 Stat. 1606.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) In General.— Chapter 81 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “§ 1260. Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands; certiorari   “Final judgments or decrees rendered by the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands may be reviewed by the Supreme Court by writ of certiorari where the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States is drawn in question or where the validity of a statute of the Virgin Islands is drawn in question on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is specially set up or claimed under the Constitution or the treaties or statutes of, or any commission held or authority exercised under, the United States.” .

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 112–226, § 3, , 126 Stat. 1607, provided that: “The amendments made by this Act [enacting this section and amending section 1613 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions] apply to cases commenced on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [].”

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 112–226, § 2(a), , 126 Stat. 1606.)

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