VIRGIN ISLANDS SUPREME COURT INTERNAL OPERATING PROCEDURES 11.4. Guidelines

• Jurisdiction: United States

11.4. Guidelines

The following rules and guidelines apply to law clerks and, where applicable, to staff attorneys:

11.4.1. Discussion of Pending Cases. Unless the Justices specifically agree otherwise in a given case, it is the Court's general policy for the Justices not to discuss, debate or confer regarding the merits or substantive issues of pending cases until they are conferenced. The same policy applies to law clerks. Thus, law clerks are instructed that unless the Court specifically requests a law clerk to do so, any such communications or exchanges of memoranda or views between clerks assigned to different Justices are avoided until the Court has conferred and issued its memorandum of decision or has agreed upon a disposition. This does not preclude such common courtesies as providing photocopies of cases or portions of the record which...