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Castro dismisses Moylan’s appeal
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Posted on Mar 22 2005
Justice Alexandro C. Castro, sitting as acting Chief Justice Pro Tempore for the Supreme Court of Guam, granted on Friday Guam attorney general Douglas B. Moylan’s motion to dismiss an appeal regarding the Guam Ethics Commission. The controversy became moot after the Guam legislature passed Public Law 27-141, reestablishing the Commission.
Chief Justice F. Philip Carbullido of the Guam Supreme Court designated Castro to preside over the matter because all the full-time justices of the Guam Supreme Court were disqualified from sitting on the case.
Castro, who was the CNMI’s first local attorney general, said: “We are more than happy and we stand ready to assist our sister island of Guahan in any way we can. Even though history and the Pacific Ocean separate the People of Guam and the People of the Northern Mariana Islands—we breathe the same air, swim and fish in the same ocean, and enjoy the same delicacies (fanihi, binadu or deer, ayuyu or coconut crab). Perhaps some day the inhabitants of the “Las Islas de las Velas-Las Islas de los Ladrones-Las Marianas’ will be united ‘politically’ as one people under the flag of the United States of America. Until then, for those of us who cherish our true cultural identity the phrase ‘Chamoru Nation’ remains a dream.”
