{"id":259536,"date":"2017-09-05T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=259536"},"modified":"2017-09-05T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:06:38","slug":"report-sought-status-betty-johnson-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/report-sought-status-betty-johnson-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Report sought on status of Betty Johnson class action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal court ordered Settlement Fund Trustee attorney Joyce Tang and other parties to report whether all issues in the Betty Johnson\u2019s class action have been resolved.  <\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI designated Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood also directed Tang and other parties in the class action to submit the report whether this case can now be closed in light of the Johnson\u2019s settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The judge gave the parties no later than Sept. 15, 2017, to file the report.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Tydingco-Gatewood gave final approval to the global settlement agreement in Johnson\u2019s class action against the CNMI government and the NMI Retirement Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Under the settlement deal, the CNMI government agreed to make annual payments that will enable the Settlement Fund to pay at least 75 percent of class members\u2019 benefits.<\/p>\n<p>With the final approval, all Retirement Fund assets were then transferred and assigned as assets of the Settlement Fund. The Settlement Fund was then administered by Tang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal court ordered Settlement Fund Trustee attorney Joyce Tang and other parties to report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,93,11112,9723],"class_list":["post-259536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-district-court","tag-joyce-tang","tag-settlement-fund-trustee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259536","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}