Acting US Secretary of Interior
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Federal attorneys representing Chief Justice Michael Kruse and the Acting US Secretary of Interior are seeking dismissal of a complaint against the two DOI officials, filed by local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter at the federal court in Washington D.C.
The federal...

![Although the chief justice is an employee of the U.S. Department of the Interior, he acts in a territorial capacity in his role as Chief Justice, and conducts all of his official acts in American Samoa, not in Washington, D.C., the defense says in its latest submission. [SN file photo] Chief Justice F. Michael Kruse](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/kruse_0723_25.jpg?itok=eqDJiXx9)