organic-act

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24-701 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-12-31 Denied attorney-general executive-authority organic-act prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers territorial-law 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Guam violated the Guam Organic Act's designation of the Attorney General of Guam as the "Chief Legal Officer of the Go…
24A382 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam Guam 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete attorney-general government-corruption legal-representation organic-act separation-of-powers territorial-government Question not identified.
23-7060 Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-22 Denied IFP congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 31, 1890 (25 U.S.C. § 30-31; 26 Stat. 81, 83-84, 87) to establish State laws, or did Congress pa…
23-6873 Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied IFP arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty loress passiheOraonicac+tbroKlahoma on establish Slate laws, or did Congress eneral lauJS of Arkansas on ITIaY Z,I2% providina fine provis ► entHTea T…
23-828 Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Governor of Guam, et al. Guam 2024-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) advisory-opinion article-iv-court federal-courts guam judicial-authority justiciability organic-act separation-of-powers The question presented is whether the Supreme Court of Guam's advisory opinion constitutes a permissible exercise of the "judicial authority" that Con…
19-6681 Louis Milton Willis v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2019-11-19 Denied IFP 48-usc-1612 district-court exclusive-jurisdiction gross-receipts-tax income-tax organic-act revised-organic-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction virgin-islands Whether the plain language of § 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954 [48 U.S.C. § 1612(a)] establishing that "the District Court of the Virgin Isla…
18-6098 Joe Johnson, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-25 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (5)IFP criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-subject-matter-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act organic-act prospective-decisions seminole-country seminole-tribe state-waiver-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction Q. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT CLEARLY ESTABLISHED THE PROSPECTIVE DECISIONS THAT SEMINOLE COUNTRY WRITTEN IN CONGRESS ORGANIC ACT INVOKES THE MAJOR CRI…