The preliminary injunction I filed in the District Court served its purpose.<\/p>\n
The purpose of my preliminary injunction is to prevent Eloy Inos from avoiding to pay pension to retirees who opted out. He was very firm in his position that \u201cif [retirees] don\u2019t want to join the settlement, there is nothing [he] can do. [He] cannot guarantee payment even if they decide to go to Finance to demand their checks. They are not going to get a check. They can\u2019t. They won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
When opt out retirees were not paid their pension on Oct. 15, 2013, I immediately file a constitutional violation lawsuit and a preliminary injunction. Lo and behold! Eloy Inos wrote to the NMI Retirement Fund directing the Fund to pay opt-out retirees 75 percent of their pension. It took my preliminary injunction to force Eloy Inos to come to his senses not to ignore us 16 opt-out retirees.<\/p>\n
All opt-out retirees are now assured that we will continue receiving our pension and health insurance coverage as stipulated by the District Court that \u201c\u2026all evidence before the court indicates that [opt-out retirees] will continue to receive 75 percent of [their] pension payments and full health insurance coverage. \u2026The present possibility of the Commonwealth later electing to not pay [opt-out retirees] any retirement benefits is not likely.\u201d It took for my preliminary injunction for Eloy Inos to pay opt-out retirees. Now the District Court finds it not necessary to approve my preliminary injunction.<\/p>\n
All that remains now is for the District Court to ascertain if it is a constitutional violation to diminish and impair retirees\u2019 pension. The court is the only proper venue to ascertain whether or not one\u2019s constitutional right is being violated. I strongly believe that a diminution in our pension is a violation of our NMI Constitution, Article 3, Section 20a.<\/p>\n
I hope Eloy Inos follows his boss (Governor Fitial) that he prefers to mediate than to litigate to avoid wasting taxpayer\u2019s money defending their indefensible acts. God bless us all.<\/p>\n
[B]Jesus I. Taisague[\/B]
\n[I]Koblerville, Saipan[\/I]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The purpose of my preliminary injunction is to prevent Eloy Inos from avoiding to pay pension to retirees who opted out. He was very firm in his position that \u201cif [retirees] don\u2019t want to join the settlement, there is nothing [he] can do. [He] cannot guarantee payment even if they decide to go to Finance to demand their checks. They are not going to get a check. They can\u2019t. They won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}