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MARIANAS PUB. LAND v. GOV. OF N. MARIANAS ISLANDS

No. 86-2956.

838 F.2d 341 (1988)

MARIANAS PUBLIC LAND TRUST, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GOVERNMENT OF the COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; Marianas Public Land Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Keith Partlow and Patricia Beatley, Asst. Attys. Gen., Saipan, CM, for defendants-appellants.

Theodore R. Mitchell, Saipan, CM, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWNING, WRIGHT, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

LEAVY, Circuit Judge:

The Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Marianas Public Land Corporation appeal from the decision of the Appellate Division of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. The appellate division held that funds transferred from the United States to the Commonwealth were rent from Commonwealth lands and ordered that the funds be paid over to the Marianas Public Land Trust. We reverse.

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