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SUPREME COURT

Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale, who is a former ASG attorney general, responded briefly during last Thursday’s COVID-19 Task Force virtual news conference on the U.S Supreme Court decision, on June 24, that overturned the decades-old Roe v. Wade ruling regarding...
U.S. Supreme Court building
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The court held by an 8-1 vote Thursday that making...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Supreme Court decision yesterday halted the implementation of a U.S Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) vaccination rule, which applies to businesses with at least 100 workers. A U.S. Labor Department official last week confirmed to Samoa News...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) has confirmed that the new Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (EST) rule on COVID-19 also applies to employers in American Samoa with at least 100 workers. And the rule is proceeding forward, following a ruling by a...
HRPP elected Members of Parliament
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the HRPP and ordered the Speaker of the House to swear in the party's members. The HRPP members were elected in April's national poll and have not been knocked out by post-election legal challenges. The Samoa Observer reports the orders...
Convoy of cars for demonstration against judiciary.
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's court houses in Apia closed on Friday (Samoa time) in anticipation of a convoy of protest against the country's judiciary. Our correspondent in Apia says hearings scheduled for the afternoon were moved to Monday to avoid any disruption. The protests are in support of the...
Chief Justice Satiu Simativa Perese and Head of State
Apia, SAMOA — Chiefs from a prominent village on Samoa's big island have thrown their support behind the country's Chief Justice after the caretaker government questioned his competency. Matai from Savaii's important maritime port village of Salelologa have urged the Human Rights Protection Party (...
FAST leader Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's caretaker HRPP administration and its leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi have been accused of an unprecedented attack on the rule of law. The call comes from the winner of April's election, majority party FAST, which has raised concern about what it described as "disturbing...
 Samoa's Head of State Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Head of State Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II has declared that parliament convene on Monday 2nd August. He made the announcement on television Sunday night (Samoa time) ahead of today's (Monday in Samoa) deadline set by the Supreme Court for parliament to sit after the...
U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attorneys representing the Territory of American Samoa — through ASG and the Governor’s Office —  are asking the United States Supreme Court to approve its “writ of certiorari” to review a federal appeal’s court ruling, which reversed a lower court decision dealing with...

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