U.S. SUPREME COURT
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territory of American Samoa — through ASG and the Governor’s Office — has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review a federal appeal’s court ruling, which reversed a lower court decision dealing with the Large Vessel Protected Area (LVPA) in...

![“The Ninth Circuit’s decision threatens to disrupt the relationship between the United States and one of its longstanding territories— a relationship predicated upon voluntary agreements that had served both sides well for more than a century,” American Samoa said in written arguments in it’s 119-page petition to the Supreme Court. [AP photo] U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/supreme_court.jpeg?itok=gWcZcQ5x)