Law Practice
Nov. 15, 2016
Article IV court constitutionality put to test
One tropical appeal and a dubious marriage threatened to cause a storm in the Northern Mariana Island courts. By Anna-Rose Mathieson
Anna-Rose Mathieson
California Appellate Law Group LLP
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Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
Anna-Rose clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, and was named one of the 20 most prolific Supreme Court amicus filers in 2018.
APPELLATE ZEALOTS
South of Japan and north of Australia, the Northern Mariana Islands are an 18-hour plane ride from San Francisco. Lined with tropical white sand beaches, the islands seem worlds away from the Bay Area - and yet appeals are to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
That odd arrangement is the result of the islands' status as a self-governing commonwealth u...
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