7 GCA § 14109
Jurisdiction over Nonresident Defendants
View official PDF ↗A court of this Territory may exercise jurisdiction on any basis not inconsistent with the Organic Act or the Constitution of the United States.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 18-17 § 45 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Interpreted by the courts:
- 1999 Guam 17 — PCI Communications, Inc. vs. GST PacWest Telecom Hawaii, INC. (1999) · per Benjamin J.F. Cruz, J. · cited at ¶16
- 2005 Guam 19 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Carl T.C. Gutierrez, Clifford A. Guzman, Joseph Luis Cruz, and Thelma Ann D. Agu (2005) · cited at ¶16
- 2012 Guam 11 — David G. Banes, Petitioner, v. Superior Court of Guam, Respondent, Oxana Galkina Banes, Real Party in Interest (2012) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶27
- 2013 Guam 11 — Harry R. Speicher, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Victoria L. Speicher, Defendant-Appellee (2013) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶9
- 2013 Guam 9 — Agana Beach Condominium Homeowners’ Association and Gerald Perez, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Monte Mafnas, Director, Dep (2013) · cited at ¶70
- 2023 Guam 8 — RSA-Tumon, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc., Defendant-Appellee, and Sherif Antoun Philip (2023) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶33
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.