Douglas B. Moylan, Attorney General of Guam v. Felix P. Camacho, Governor of Guam

Subject:

Guam Organic Act, Aggregate Tax Valuation, Assessments, Tolling, Certiorari, Civil Procedure, Tax Law

• Whether the Supreme Court of Guam erred in interpreting the phrase “aggregate tax valuation” in the Guam Organic Act’s debt-limitation provision, 48 U.S.C. § 1423a (emphasis added), as tying the limit on borrowing by the Guam territorial government to the full value of property on Guam rather than to the assessed value used for purposes of taxation.
  
  
• Whether the time for filing a petition for writ of certiorari from this Court was tolled while a petition for writ of certiorari or writ of certiorari with respect to the same judgment was pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• Guam Supreme Court, Opinion Filed: July 23, 2003
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: September 26, 2006

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket