A bill that proposes to regulate the practice of law in the CNMI got the boot after members of a House of Representatives committee voted to table the bill. The House Judiciary and Government Operations Committee, led by Rep. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan), unanimously voted to set...

Alfonso Sebastian Parongan, a 56-year-old man accused of killing a woman and injuring her husband outside his home in Chalan Kanoa last October, has asserted, through his counsel, a plea of not guilty for reason of insanity. Saipan Tribune learned that the mental evaluation...

Attorneys of the Office of the Attorney General have marching orders not to do justice, but to help the CNMI government to avoid paying any claims from victims of medical malpractice, according to former Saipan representative Ana S. Teregeyo. Teregeyo said the attorneys who have...

The Commonwealth Election Commission has turned over to the Office of the Attorney General the case of over 13 individuals whose registration of affidavits from off-island have “problematic issues.” CEC received the registration of affidavits through the mail. At CEC’s board...