COVID-19 emergency declarations
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Trial Division of the High Court has denied a motion by local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter for the Chief Justice and two Associate Judges to disqualify themselves from presiding over his lawsuit against the governor and the American Samoa Government in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Twenty-four hours after ASG implemented its repatriation plan to return back to the territory local residents stranded in Samoa after inter-Samoa borders were closed two months ago, the local Attorney General’s Office issued an advisory yesterday morning that “OK Board”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second $4 million lawsuit was filed Monday with the Trial Division of the High Court against Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and the American Samoa Government in connection with the governor’s four COVID-19 emergency declarations since March.
The new claim is brought by...

![Plaintiff’s accusations against the judges “range from scandalous, to outlandish, to patently false” and the court finds that plaintiff’s motion is “clearly fueled by his hopes to secure a more favorable outcome from another arbiter,” the order states. Pictured is Chief Justice F. Michael Kruse [SN file photo] Chief Justice F. Michael Kruse](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/kruse_0723_4.png?itok=DFoAdzW4)

