Paul D. Shriver
Judge Shriver no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Shriver decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Shriver treated a nominal bottle club as an unlicensed liquor seller when its arrangement functioned as a device to evade licensing law.
“Courts will refuse to countenance any trick or subterfuge intended to evade the law against the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor.”
Shriver read Guam's direct-action insurance protections in light of their public-protection purpose when the insured driver had died.
“All of the statutes for the protection of the public were in existence when this accident took place and became a part of any policy issued.”
Procedural preferences
Shriver enforced the tax statute's annual accounting boundary when deciding whether a pre-effective-date corporate loss could be carried forward.
“The defendant’s motion for summary judgment is granted, the form of such judgment to be settled with plaintiff within 10 days.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the foregoing reasons the complaint is dismissed without leave to amend.”
After a murder conviction, the court selected life imprisonment rather than death after considering mitigating circumstances.
The court discharged the defendant and dismissed an information because the charged conduct did not fall within the territorial embezzlement statute.
“The defendant’s motion for summary judgment is granted, the form of such judgment to be settled with plaintiff within 10 days.”
“We can do no better on appeal than the Court did in the course of trial, and we therefore affirm.”
“Accordingly, we affirm the orders of dismissal in the Island Court.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned electronic docket sample was available for a historical caseload description.
A historical record
Judge Shriver no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.