Ronald E. Russell v. Governor John P. Dejongh, Jr

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Virgin Islands District Court, despite its status as an Article TV court, “is subject to the limitations of Article HI,” including the limitation on only deciding live cases and controversies
• “[O]nce a bill has become law, a legislator’s interest in seeing that the law is followed is no different from a private citizen’s interest in proper government.”
• suit brought by territorial legislator against territorial governor raised separation of powers issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).