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DEFOE v. PHILLIP

No. 12-1586.

702 F.3d 735 (2012)

Timothy DEFOE v. Lenroy PHILLIP, Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: December 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel H. Holt , [Argued], Law Offices of Joel H. Holt, Christiansted, VI, for Respondent.

Carl A. Beckstedt, III , [Argued], Beckstedt & Associates, Douglas L. Capdeville , Law Offices of Douglas L. Capdeville, Christiansted, VI, for Petitioner.

Before: SMITH, HARDIMAN, and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

For over half a century, this Court has been the final interpreter of Virgin Islands law. In that role, we have made an incalculable number of rulings and have issued hundreds of decisions. But our role changed in 2007 with the founding of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands. We must now decide whether and when that nascent Supreme Court may reject our pre-2007 interpretations of Virgin Islands law.1

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