DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FIRST ANNUAL DISTRICT CONFERENCE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010

8:00 a.m.- 8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.- 8:35 a.m. Welcome Chief Judge Curtis V. Gómez, District Court of the United States VirginIslands

8:35 a.m.- 10:05 a.m. Judicial Independence: Can Judges Provide “Reason Free FromPassion?”

A Case Study in Judicial Independence: The Battle Between the People’sWill and the First Amendment in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area SchoolDistrictJudge John E. Jones, United States District Court for the Middle Districtof Pennsylvania (M.D. Pa.)

Does the Concept of Judicial Independence Subvert the Will of thePeople?Moderator: Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University ofCalifornia, Irvine School of Law

Panelists: Chief Justice Rhys Hodge, Supreme Court of the United StatesVirgin Islands; Judge John E. Jones, M.D. Pa.; Senator Louis P. Hill,President of the Virgin Islands Legislature; Charles W. Turnbull, Ph.D.,former Governor of the Virgin Islands

Why Should Judges Serve as Guardians Against the “Tyranny of theMajority?”Moderator: Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University ofCalifornia, Irvine School of Law

Panelists: Presiding Judge Darryl Donohue, United States Virgin IslandsSuperior Court; Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, United States Court ofAppeals for the Third Circuit; Senator Nereida Rivera-O’Reilly,Member of the Virgin Islands Legislature; Charles W. Turnbull, Ph.D.,former Governor of the Virgin Islands

10:05 a.m. -10:20 a.m. Morning Break

10:20 a.m.-11:05 a.m. Appellate Review

A View from the Third Circuit on Virgin Islands Appellate PracticeChief Judge Anthony J. Scirica, Third Circuit

Procedural Considerations in Pursuing a Review on Writ of Certiorari inthe Virgin IslandsModerator: Pamela Colon, Esquire

Panelists: Venetia Velazquez, Clerk of Court for the Virgin IslandsSuperior Court; Veronica Handy, Clerk of Court for the Virgin IslandsSupreme Court; Marcia M. Waldron, Clerk of Court for the Third Circuit

11:05 a.m.- 12:05 p.m. Supreme Court Round-UpProfessor Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University of California, IrvineSchool of Law

12:05 p.m.-1:05 p.m. Lunch

The Spiritual Revitalization of the Legal ProfessionDr. David Hall, President of the University of the Virgin Islands

1:05 p.m. -2:05 p.m. Do All Constitutional Rights Extend to U.S. Citizens in U.S. Territories?Moderator: Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University ofCalifornia, Irvine School of Law

Panelists: Chief Judge Frances Marie Tydingco-Gatewood, District Courtof Guam; U.S. Ambassador Terence A. Todman; Joanne Bozzuto,Esquire; Jomo Meade, Esquire

2:05 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Break

2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Bench/Bar Forum

District OverviewChief Judge Curtis V. Gómez, District Court of the Virgin Islands

Magistrate Judge Issue PanelModerator: Andrew Capdeville, Esquire

Panelists: Magistrate Judge Geoffrey W. Barnard, District Court of theVirgin Islands; Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon, District Court ofthe Virgin Islands; Magistrate Jessica Gallivan, Superior Court of theVirgin Islands; Magistrate Alan Smith, Superior Court of the VirginIslands

3:45 p.m. Adjourn