7 GCA § 26603
Costs and attorney’s fees allowed to the Government of Guam
View official PDF ↗employees in cases against the government of Guam. Costs and reasonable attorney’s fees shall be allowed of course to a government of Guam employee upon a judgment in the employee's favor in cases against the government of Guam in which the employee seeks to enforce plaintiff's employment rights as a government employee, whether or not plaintiff has ceased to be an employee at the time of the filing of the action, upon a judgment in plaintiff's favor, in which the court or jury funds that the employee has been deprived of his or her rights as an employee of the government of Guam. This Section shall be applicable to costs and attorney’s fees incurred in any action filed on or after January 1, 1983.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 18-9 § 26 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2003 Guam 19 — National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority, De (2003) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶54
- 2003 Guam 4 — Ursula U. Fleming vs. Mary Ann F. Quigley and James R. Quigley (2003) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶13
- 2015 Guam 18 — In the Matter of: Guam Memorial Hospital Authority, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Civil Service Commission, Respondent, and Ev (2015) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · cited at ¶41
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.