United States v. The Sally Magee

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• noting that the qualifications of a prospective officeholder may be challenged through several non-exclusive means, such as a taxpayer suit under 5 V.I.C. § 80, an action for a writ of mandamus, or an action for a writ of quo warranto
• “when a legislature adopts a statute, it does so with knowledge of existing law.” (Citation omitted)
• “[T]he mootness doctrine in the Virgin Islands is a non-jurisdictional claims-processing rule that has been incorporated into Virgin Islands law only as a matter of judicial policy.” (quoting Mapp, 61 V.I. at 530)
• “[Wjhen the Virgin Islands Legislature models a local statute after a statute adopted by another jurisdiction, ‘judicial decisions interpreting [that] statute shall assist this Court in interpreting the same clause found in our local statute’ ”
• “[T]he Virgin Islands Legislature, when enacting a new law, is deemed to have knowledge of existing law.... Thus, it is presumed to intend for the new law to operate in harmony with existing statutes and common law”
• “[T]he Virgin Islands Legislature, when enacting a new law, is deemed to have knowledge of existing law . . . and is presumed to intend for the new law to operate in harmony with existing statutes and common law.”

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