MAGANA v. COM. OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

No. 95-16120.

107 F.3d 1436 (1997)

Teofanie M. MAGANA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; Isamu J. Abraham, personally and in his capacity as Secretary of the Department of Public Health and Environmental Services; Jose Chong, personally, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 6, 1997.

As Amended May 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Anthony Long, Long & Brown, Saipan, MP, for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert Dunlap, Assistant Attorney General, Saipan, MP, for defendants-appellees.

Before: BROWNING, ALDISERT, and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge:

Other substantial issues are presented in this appeal by Teofanie M. Magana from a judgment entered in favor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ("Commonwealth" or "CNMI") and two individual officials, but the major question for decision is whether a litigant has the right to bring an action for money damages against the Commonwealth directly under the Fourteenth...

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