7 GCA § 4101

(d) All Judges sitting on the effective date of this Chapter shall continue to sit for the remainder of

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their respective terms without need for reappointment, reconfirmation or additional declarations required by this § 4101.

(e)Enactment of Rules on Case Management and Disposition. The Supreme Court shall enact rules governing the efficient dispatch of the Superior Court’s business, including the following:

(1)time frames and deadlines for matters taken under submission to provide speedy and efficient disposition of cases;

(2)compilation of data and statistics regarding the court and each judge’s performance and publication of the same on the Supreme Court website. Said compilation shall include, but not be limited to, the number of motions filed in cases pending before each judge, the number of motions and trials to the court which each judge has had under submission more than sixty

(60)days, and the number of motions and trials to the court each judge has had under submission more than one hundred twenty

(120)days prompt and equitable assignment and distribution of cases and workload and time off among the judges;

(3)assignment, management, distribution, processing, scheduling and disposition of cases in the Superior Court;

(4)whether a referee or hearing officer may hear a case; and

(5)any other matters which affect the prompt, fair and just disposition of cases in the Superior Court.

§ The story of this section

Enacted by P.L. 21-147 § 2 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Amended by P.L. 22-75 § 2 — introduced as Bill 11-22 · introduced by Francisco R. Santos + 2 cosponsors
Amended by P.L. 24-139 § 30 — introduced as Bill 495-24 · introduced by Anthony C. Blaz + 2 cosponsors
Amended by P.L. 27-31 § 11 — introduced as Bill 48-27 · introduced by F. Randall Cunliffe + 13 cosponsors · lead sponsor unverified
Amended by P.L. 28-137 § 1 — introduced as Bill 307-28 · introduced by Robert Klitzkie

Interpreted by the courts:

2000 Guam 11 — Vicente C. Pangelinan, Senator, and Joseph C. Wesley, Mayor, on behalf of themselves and> all those similarly situated, (2000) · per Peter C. Siguenza, J.
2007 Guam 9 — Arnold Kyle Nicholson, Petitioner, v. Superior Court of Guam, Respondent, vs. People of Guam, Real Party in Interest (2007) · per Robert J. Torres, J.
2015 Guam 8 — Government of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Geraldine T. Gutierrez, in her capacity as Administratrix of (2015) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J.
2017 Guam 24 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Anthony Gallo, Defendant-Appellant (2017) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J.

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.