DECISION AND ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Ramona V. Manglona , Chief Judge . I. INTRODUCTION On June 29, 2016, the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation ("CUC") and 13 of its alien contract workers employed under the federal Commonwealth-only transitional worker program brought this action against Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") Jeh Charles Johnson, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") Sarah R. Saldana, and Director...
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART RESPONDENTS' MOTION TO DISMISS AMENDED PETITION RAMONA V. MANGLONA , Chief District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION Before the Court is Respondents' Motion to Dismiss Amended Petition (ECF No. 15). Respondents are the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and various immigration officials within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), all of whom are being sued in their official capacities. (Am. Pet., ECF No. 10.) They...
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR ATTORNEY FEES AND EXPENSES RAMONA V. MANGLONA , Chief District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1988, Plaintiffs David J. Radich and Li-Rong Radich have filed a Motion for Attorney Fees and Expenses (ECF No. 61), following this Court's grant of summary judgment in their favor on Second Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment claims under 42 U.S.C. 1983 (ECF No. 60). The request is for $80,325.00 in...
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF UNIVERSAL GROUP DEVELOPMENT INC. (SAIPAN)'S MOTION IN SUPPORT OF JUDGMENT RAMONA V. MANGLONA , Chief District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION There are a number of ways to challenge a court decision. Ask the court to reconsider. Appeal. Find a valid means of collateral attack in another court. But ignoring the court's decision, or acting as if it were not binding, is no way to bring a challenge. It is, however, a good way to invoke a court's sanction powers....
DECISION AND ORDER DENYING MOTION TO INTERVENE RAMONA V. MANGLONA , District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION Dissatisfied with Defendants' failure to appeal this Court's decision striking down a popular handgun ban, the movant seeks to intervene and appeal in Defendants' place. However, because the legislature has already replaced the unconstitutional statute with a new gun control law that adopts the Court's ruling, the lawsuit is moot and there is no longer any case or controversy to litigate....
DECISION AND ORDER DENYING APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF SUBPOENAS HEATHER L. KENNEDY , Magistrate Judge . I. INTRODUCTION The Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic ("GOL") filed an application to obtain discovery from Bridge Capital LLC, John K. Baldwin, David Jensen, and the First Hawaiian Bank ("FHB") in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1782, for use in private international commercial arbitration and its own criminal bribery and...
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT RAMONA V. MANGLONA , Chief District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("Commonwealth" or "CNMI"), prohibits most private individuals from possessing and importing handguns and handgun ammunition. 6 CMC [N. Mar. I. Code] 2222(e), 2301(a)(3). In order to possess any firearm, an individual must first apply for and...
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT RAMONA V. MANGLONA , Chief District Judge . I. INTRODUCTION The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("Commonwealth" or "CNMI"), prohibits most private individuals from possessing and importing handguns and handgun ammunition. 6 CMC [N. Mar. I. Code] 2222(e), 2301(a)(3). In order to possess any firearm, an individual must first apply for and...
