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LUIS v. DENNIS

Civ. No. 292-1983.

576 F.Supp. 733 (1983)

Juan LUIS, Governor of the Virgin Islands, Plaintiff, v. Hugo DENNIS, Jr., Sidney Lee, William Harvey, Bent Lawaetz, Cleone Creque-Maynard, Ruby Simmonds, Lilliana Belardo De O'Neal, Lorraine Berry, Adelbert Bryan, Virdin Brown, Elmo Roebuck, Milton Frett, Edgar Iles, Lloyd Williams, and Kenneth Mapp, Constituting the Fifteenth Legislature of the Virgin Islands, Defendants.

District Court, Virgin Islands, D. St. Croix.

November 28, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan D. Smith, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Law, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I., for plaintiff.

Eric E. Dawson, Chief Legal Counsel, 15th Legislature of the Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

DAVID V. O'BRIEN, District Judge.

THIS MATTER is before the Court on an Action for Declaratory Judgment pursuant to 5 V.I.C. §§ 1261-1262 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201. At issue is the validity of Act No. 4836 enacted by the Fifteenth Legislature of the Virgin Islands on June 14, 1983 over the veto of Governor Juan Luis. For the reasons set forth below we find that Act No. 4836 is in violation of the doctrine of Separation...

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