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    The High Court of American Samoa is a Samoan court and the highest court below the United States Supreme Court in American Samoa. The Court is located...
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    downtown area of Pago Pago (the territorial capital of American Samoa). Located in the low grounds at the foot of Matafao Peak, it was the location of the first...
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  • government of American Samoa is defined under the Constitution of American Samoa. The United States Congress, in the Ratification Act of 1929, provided...
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    American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14°18′S 170°42′W...
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    of the islands. The judiciary of American Samoa is composed of the High Court of American Samoa, a District Court, and village courts. The High Court...
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    District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American...
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    PAHNG-gaw-PAHNG-gaw; Samoan: Samoan pronunciation: [ˈpaŋo ˈpaŋo]) is the capital of American Samoa. It is in Maoputasi County on Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa...
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  • Samoan Americans are Americans of Samoan origin, including those who emigrated from the United States Territory of American Samoa and immigrants from...
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    District of the Northern Mariana Islands. Additionally, it sometimes handles appeals that originate from American Samoa, which has no district court and partially...
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    The flag of American Samoa consists of a red-edged white triangle pointing towards the hoist charged with a bald eagle clutching a war club and fly-whisk...
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  • Michael Kruse (judge) (category Justices of the High Court of American Samoa)
    Justice of the High Court of American Samoa. Kruse made history as the first person of Samoan descent to be appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of American...
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    Upper house: American Samoa Senate Lower house: American Samoa House of Representatives Judiciary of American Samoa High Court of American Samoa The United...
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    Tafuna (Samoan: Tāfuna) is a village in Tualauta County, Western District, American Samoa. It is the most populous village in American Samoa, with a population...
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  • Fiti A. Sunia (category Justices of the High Court of American Samoa)
    (born August 29, 1960) is an American lawyer who has served as the associate justice of the High Court of American Samoa since 2019. Sunia was born on...
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    This is a list of governors, etc. of the part of the Samoan Islands (now comprising American Samoa) under United States administration since 1900. From...
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  • Judiciary of American Samoa is defined under the Constitution of American Samoa and the American Samoa Code. It consists of the High Court of American Samoa, a...
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    District Court for the District of Columbia and the High Court of American Samoa) federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has...
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  • Thumbnail for 2024 American Samoan general election
    were held in American Samoa on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters elected a governor, lieutenant governor, faipule (members) of the House of Representatives...
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  • Mere Tuiasosopo Betham (category American Samoan educators)
    appointed as the Director of Education in American Samoa and also the first female associate judge of the High Court of American Samoa. Mere Tuiasosopo Betham...
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    The High Court of American Samoa has held that birth certificates should only be altered to correct information that was erroneous at the time of recordation...
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    Veto power in the United States (category Federal government of the United States)
    long-term leases, which the High Court of American Samoa upheld as constitutional in 1987. The vetoes of the governor of the US Virgin Islands has a package...
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    The American Samoan Legislature or Fono has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which has a directly elected head of government...
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  • reorganized) High Court of American Samoa Supreme Court of Guam Superior Court of Guam District Court of Guam Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court Northern...
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    Development Bank of American Samoa, Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga; Lieutenant Governor Faoa Aitofele Sunia; and former High Court of American Samoa justice Save...
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  • Thumbnail for 2012 American Samoan general election
    were held in American Samoa on November 6, 2012, to elect a new governor and lieutenant governor, twenty members of the American Samoa House of Representatives...
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    Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting...
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    The prime minister of the Independent State of Samoa (Samoan: Palemia o le Malo Tuto’atasi o Sāmoa) is the head of government of Samoa. The prime minister...
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    American Samoa consists of a group of two coral atolls and five volcanic islands in the South Pacific Ocean of Oceania. The first permanent European settlement...
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  • district court), the Court of Federal Claims, and the Tax Court. Article IV courts include the High Court of American Samoa and territorial courts such as...
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    The American Samoa Fono is the territorial legislature of American Samoa. Like most states and territorial legislatures of the United States, it is a bicameral...
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