VIRGIN ISLANDS SUPREME COURT RULE 106 VIRGIN ISLANDS SUPREME COURT RULE 106

• Jurisdiction: United States

VIRGIN ISLANDS SUPREME COURT RULE 106 Public Domain Citation System

(a) Purpose. Given the increasing amount of legal research being conducted via the internet and other electronic resources and the desire to promote equal access to the Virgin Islands' system of justice, the Virgin Islands Judiciary has adopted this universal public domain citation format that will support the use of Virgin Islands case law in both book and electronic formats.

(b) Scope. Attorneys and self-represented parties will be permitted—but not required—to use the public domain citation format instead of or in addition to citing to the Virgin Islands Reporter when citing to a decision of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands or the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. Irrespective of which citation format is used, a parallel citation to the other format is not required to be included as part of the citation.

(c) Duties of Clerks. The Clerk of the Supreme Court and the Clerk of the Superior Court shall jointly administer this rule. Effective January 1, 2019, all opinions of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands and the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands shall be promptly posted to the websites maintained by the Judicial Branch of the Virgin Islands by the clerk of each respective court after the opinion is assigned a citation format in accordance with sections (d) through (g) of this Rule. As used in this Rule, "opinion" shall not include orders or judgments, findings of fact and conclusions of law, or similar documents, whether or not they accompany an opinion, but shall include an "opinion" that is designated as not for...