The Supreme Court affirms the trial court’s decision to dismiss the complaint filed by a construction company against the Public School System.<\/p>\n
The former contractor of PSS project, IGI, alleged that PSS officials did not honor the contract and cited extortion and conspiracy.<\/p>\n
It alleged that project supervisor attempted to extort a pay-off and former Commissioner of Education William Torres conspired by allowing another contractor to complete the project.<\/p>\n
In its analysis of the case, the high court found that IGI failed to present facts to support their allegations.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court found no basis for the facts presented and from the excerpt of records to support IGI’s claims and thus affirmed the earlier decision to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n
As cited by the trial court, there is no written law in the CNMI which generally recognized tort of attempted extortion and conspiracy.<\/p>\n
In addition, the common law, which is applied in the United States, does not provide relief of a tort or on attempted extortion or conspiracy.<\/p>\n
In 1997, the company entered into a construction contract with PSS to build five classrooms and toilet facilities at Koblerville Elementary School. Its contract was secured through a bond issued by JTS. When IGI was removed from the project, JTS arranged for another contractor to complete the project. Sheila D. Amor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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