U.S. District Court for the District of Guam
Public, sourced statistics for this district — reviewed 2026-09-17. Every figure below carries the U.S. Courts source and reporting period it was pulled from.
A district-specific median time to civil trial was not separately reported by the U.S. Courts for the current period (generally because too few civil trials were completed to support a stable median) and is not shown above rather than estimated.
- 01With 1 authorized judgeship carrying 284 pending civil cases as of the period reported, the district averages roughly 284 pending civil matters per judgeship.
What drives case duration in D. Guam?
The reported median time from filing to civil disposition in D. Guam is 77.3 months, slower than the 15.6-month national median. 120 pending civil cases — 69.0% of the district's civil docket — have been pending over three years, above the 28.3% national rate.
Duration in D. Guam tracks the relationship between filings, pending inventory, and the bench available to move cases. D. Guam carries 284 pending civil cases against 1 authorized judgeship, or roughly 284 pending civil matters per judgeship. For underwriting purposes, the aged-inventory share (cases pending over three years) is generally a better forward-looking duration signal than the median alone, since it captures the tail risk a median can mask.
How does docket composition in D. Guam shape resolution risk?
Docket composition shapes resolution path because different case types carry structurally different settlement timing, dispositive-motion practice, and trial exposure.
A district's nature-of-suit mix is a durable structural signal, not a one-time artifact — it reflects the regional economy, the population served, and any specialty tracks the court has built around a case type. D. Guam's civil docket does not show a strong concentration in any single nature-of-suit category relative to the national distribution, which argues for underwriting against the district's overall disposition and trial-timing statistics rather than a category-specific adjustment.
What should funders and counsel underwrite for specifically in D. Guam?
A district-specific median time to civil trial was not separately reported for the current period, generally because too few civil trials were completed to support a stable median. Circuit precedent runs through the Ninth Circuit, and this district's disclosure practice for non-party financial interests is a separate underwriting input from the merits timeline.
No standing order in D. Guam specifically addresses third-party litigation funding disclosure as of September 2026. Corporate and financial-interest disclosure runs through Fed. R. Civ. P. 7.1 and this district's parallel local rule; a funder's involvement is otherwise surfaced only if the presiding judge's individual practice standing order requires it. Combined with the district's own disposition and aged-inventory statistics above, these are the three inputs — timeline, docket composition, and disclosure exposure — that a portfolio-level underwriting process should hold as district-specific rather than assume from a national baseline. Criterica Intelligence's duration and resolution models calibrate to exactly this level of jurisdiction-specific detail rather than a single national prior.
D. Guam has 1 authorized district judgeship as of the 12-month period ending September 30, 2025, per U.S. Courts Federal Court Management Statistics.
The reported median is 77.3 months for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2025, slower than the 15.6-month national median for U.S. district courts.
No standing order in D. Guam specifically addresses third-party litigation funding disclosure as of September 2026. Corporate and financial-interest disclosure runs through Fed. R. Civ. P. 7.1 and this district's parallel local rule; a funder's involvement is otherwise surfaced only if the presiding judge's individual practice standing order requires it.
No single nature-of-suit category is meaningfully overrepresented relative to the national civil docket; filings are broadly distributed across the standard categories tracked by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
- U.S. Courts, Federal Court Management Statistics — U.S. District Courts, District Profiles (12-Month Periods Ending September 30, 2020 Through 2025), 12-month period ending September 30, 2025.
- U.S. Courts, Table C-1 — U.S. District Courts, Civil Cases Commenced, Terminated, and Pending, 12-month period ending March 31, 2025.
- 28 U.S.C. §§ 81–131 (district and division designations).
The statistics above are drawn from the sources cited — historical figures reported by the U.S. Courts, not projections. They describe this district's docket-level trends, not the likely outcome or duration of any individual case, and are not a Criterica Intelligence platform statistic.
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