Hueter lawsuit
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Citing that the courts in American Samoa are the proper venue, U.S District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden dismissed without prejudice a complaint filed with the federal court in Washington D.C. against ASG and more than 70 American Samoa officials including former Gov....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa defendants, including current and former ASG officials say that allowing local resident, Jay Pincus Hueter, to amend his complaint in connection with local COVID-19 restriction would “prejudice the ASG defendants, who are being forced to unnecessarily...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Federal attorneys representing US Secretary of Interior, Debra A. Haaland, Chief Justice Michael Kruse and Associate Justice Fiti A. Sunia have filed a 32-page opposition to a request by local resident, Steven Jay Pincus Hueter for leave to file a fourth amended...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The federal judge presiding over local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter’s lawsuit against current and former American Samoa Government officials at the federal court in Washington D.C. has denied as moot, parts of plaintiff’s Second Motion for a Preliminary Injunction...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga, in a sworn affidavit filed with the federal court in Washington D.C., which is hearing a constitutional rights lawsuit brought by local resident Steven Jay Pincus Hueter, says CARES Act funds allocated to Fono members have been returned...
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...





![The defense informs the court that, Malemo has attested that although each member of the Fono was issued payments from the Corona Relief Fund those payments were returned in August 2020; and “notwithstanding what the Samoa News article says, no CARES Act Funds or Corona Relief Funds were allocated or used towards any High Court building, including the demolition or construction of the High Court.” [SN file photo] ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/treasurer_malemo-tausaga-e1554187171392-o5rmz2t95ew2x8gxgnu2xdljl5ljwb3bmmw83mkhgc_2.jpg?itok=-cZpJmlW)
![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)