Law Practice
Nov. 15, 2016
Article IV court constitutionality put to test
One tropical appeal and a dubious marriage threatened to cause a storm in the Northern Mariana Island courts. By Anna-Rose Mathieson





Anna-Rose Mathieson
California Appellate Law Group LLP
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San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 649-6700
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Email: annarose@calapplaw.com
Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
Anna-Rose clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, and was named one of the 20 most prolific Supreme Court amicus filers in 2018.
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South of Japan and north of Australia, the Northern Mariana Islands are an 18-hour plane ride from San Francisco. Lined with tropical white sand beaches, the islands seem worlds away from the Bay Area - and yet appeals are to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
That odd arrangement is the result of the islands' status as a self-governing commonwealth u...
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