chief justice kruse
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A federal judge has denied as “moot” a motion by local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction against federal and American Samoa defendants, whom the plaintiff accused of violating his constitutional rights as a...

![But US District Court Judge, Trevor N. McFadden — in an opinion issued last Friday — sided with the defendants that the issue is moot. [SN file photo] U.S. Federal Court House Washington D.C.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fed_ct_washington_dc_2.jpg?itok=73d5mAqp)