District Court for the NMI

Attorney Shelli Neal has taken her former employer to federal court, alleging Micronesian Legal Services Corporation violated civil rights and employee‑benefit laws when it denied her maternity leave and refused to enroll her newborn in its health plan.

A former Homeland Security Investigations trainee accused of lying on a bank loan application and impersonating a federal agent has pleaded not guilty, with a jury trial set for late October.

Federal prosecutors have charged two individuals in separate methamphetamine conspiracy cases after both were arrested in Guam last week on warrants issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

An SSI beneficiary in Saipan is seeking injunctive relief in federal court, claiming CNMI agencies violated due‑process rules by failing to act on his food‑benefit challenge.

A man long entangled in CNMI criminal and immigration cases was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for possessing ammunition as an illegal alien.

As RNV Construction continues to deny allegations of forced labor and retaliation in federal court in the CNMI, the workers suing the company are now asking a judge in Washington, D.C., to force USCIS to release records tied to a 2023 immigration investigation.

Venerando Aquino Martin was sentenced by the federal court to 18 months in prison for visa fraud after investigators said he submitted hundreds of fraudulent immigration applications using a Saipan mailing address.

Two women have been ordered to pay more than $500,000 and will serve federal prison terms for defrauding the CNMI Public School System.

A Saipan woman who posed as a wealthy investor and targeted older women across several states has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for a fraud scheme that caused more than $769,000 in losses.

A federal judge has allowed a former dishwasher’s wage‑and‑hour lawsuit against the operator of Shirley’s Coffee Shop to move forward, finding the claims sufficient to proceed and not subject to dismissal at this early stage.