Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 8104

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
ch Reporter shall receive a salary pursuant to the Personnel Rules on compensation of the Judicial Council, and may charge and collect fees, at rates fixed by the Judicial Council, for transcripts requested by the parties, but not for the certified copy filed with the Clerk for the records of the Court. No fee shall be assessed for transcripts for use by the Court appointed attorney in such case, and the Office of the Attorney General. Each Reporter shall make such reports as the Judicial Council may require as to the transcripts prepared and fees charged by him or her.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-147:2 (Jan. 14, 1993). Repealed and reenacted by P.L.
24-139:36 (Feb. 7, 1998). Amended by P.L. 27-031:26 (Oct. 31, 2003).

COURT DECISIONS: The Supreme Court, in Pangelinan v. Gutierrez, 2000 Guam
11 (2000); affirmed by the Ninth Circuit as 276 F.3d 534 (1/10/2002), held P.L. 24-
139 not to have existed at all as a public law because it was Apocket vetoed@ by the Governor. Therefore, this section reverts to the way it read upon its original enactment as there were no amendments prior to P.L. 24-139. The main difference is to delete separate references the Superior and Supreme Court reporters and to reinstate what was placed in subsection (b) of § 8102 by P.L. 24-139:35.

1985 SOURCE: CCP § 195 changed only with reference to the source (Supreme
Court) of the rules.

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