{"id":316537,"date":"2020-01-29T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=316537"},"modified":"2020-01-29T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T20:00:45","slug":"us-gov-suit-vs-construction-company-over-osha-violations-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-gov-suit-vs-construction-company-over-osha-violations-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"US gov suit vs construction company over OSHA violations dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona dismissed Monday the U.S. government\u2019s lawsuit against a construction company that seeks to collect the $38,489 civil penalties that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration assessed against the company for alleged OSHA violations in 2013 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona dismissed the U.S. government\u2019s lawsuit against Northpac Corp. after both parties settled the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. attorney Jessica F. Wessling moved for the voluntary dismissal of the case as the terms of their settlement deal with Northpac Corp. have been satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, attorney Joaquin DLG. Torres, counsel for Northpac Corp., Northpac Corp. general manager Miguel Cruz Jr., and Wessling informed the court that the parties  have reached a settlement. <\/p>\n<p>Under the settlement, Northpac will pay $27,894.43 for the first OSHA inspection and $8,537.90 for the other OSHA inspection, for a total of $36,432.33, within 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona dismissed Monday the U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7458,320],"class_list":["post-316537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-osha","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316537","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=316537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}