The NMI Retirement Fund notified the district court yesterday that it incurred $5,685 in attorneys\u2019 fees in responding to Sapuro Rayphand\u2019s bid to transfer the Fund\u2019s lawsuit against the Fitial administration from the Superior Court to the federal court.<\/p>\n
Fund counsel Braddock J. Huesman asked the U.S. District Court for the NMI to award attorneys\u2019 fees in the amount of $5,685, made payable to the Fund.<\/p>\n
Huesman declared that he spent 37.9 hours in responding to Rayphand\u2019s meritless notice of removal and the accompanying cross-motion to strike. Rayphand is a Commonwealth Retirement Association board member.<\/p>\n
Huesman submitted the billings in response to designated Judge Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood\u2019s ruling that found Rayphand\u2019s removal of the Fund\u2019s lawsuit improper. <\/p>\n
In that order, Tydingco-Gatewood remanded the Fund\u2019s lawsuit to the Superior Court and ordered Rayphand to pay attorney\u2019s fees and costs to the Fund.<\/p>\n
In the eight-page order, Tydingco-Gatewood noted that much of Rayphand\u2019s argument for intervention is nonsensical and unrelated to the issues at hand.<\/p>\n
Attorney Bruce Jorgensen served as counsel for Rayphand. <\/p>\n
On Sept. 8, 2011, Rayphand, through Jorgensen, notified the district court that he wants the Fund\u2019s lawsuit against the CNMI government to be removed from the Superior Court and transferred to the federal court.<\/p>\n
Rayphand stated that it has been more than two years now since associate judge Govendo rendered a $230 million judgment in the case yet there has been little, if any, meaningful steps toward enforcement of that judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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