VIRGIN ISLANDS RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE VIRGIN ISLANDS RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE

• Jurisdiction: United States

VIRGIN ISLANDS RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE

Originally Effective: January 1, 2007

(S. Ct. Prom. No. 2006-0001)

Last Amended: August 31, 2020

(S. Ct. Prom. No. 2020-0004)

Chapter Outline

Rule 1. Scope of Rules; Terms; Sessions; Seal; Filing in Superior Court

Rule 2. Suspension of Rules

Rule 3. Payment of Docket Fees

Rule 4. Appeal as of Right—How Taken

Rule 5. Appeal as of Right—When Taken

Rule 6. Appeals by Permission

Rule 7. Appellate Mediation and Conciliation

Rule 8. Bond and Stay or Injunction Pending Appeal in Civil Case; Release Pending Appeal in Criminal Case

Rule 9. Pretrial Release in a Criminal Case

Rule 10. The Record on Appeal

Rule 11. Transmission of the Record on Appeal

Rule 12. Docketing of the Appeal

Rule 13. Writs of Mandamus and Prohibition Directed to Judges or Non-Judges and Other Extraordinary Writs

Rule 14. Habeas Corpus Proceedings

Rule 15. Format for Papers, Motions, and Briefs; Filing and Service

Rule 16. Computation of Time

Rule 17. Extension of Time

Rule 18. Corporate Disclosure; Business Entity in an Appeal; Representation of a Corporation

Rule 19. Notice of Possible Judicial Disqualification

Rule 20. Non-Conforming Motions, Briefs, and Appendices

Rule 21. Motions

Rule 22. Briefs

Rule 23. Brief of Amicus Curiae, 380

Rule 24. Appendix to the Briefs

Rule 25. Filing and Service of Briefs

Rule 26. Prehearing Conference

Rule 27. Oral Argument

Rule 28. Entry of Judgment

Rule 29. Interest...