§1824 Relations Between Courts of United States and Courts of Northern Mariana Islands; Applicability of Statutory Provisions

Summary

It makes the rules for how U.S. courts and Northern Mariana Islands courts handle appeals, habeas corpus, removals, and similar court actions follow the same rules that apply between federal and state courts, unless article IV of the covenant says something different. For the first fifteen years after an appellate court in the Northern Mariana Islands is set up, the U.S. court of appeals for the same judicial circuit must hear appeals from final decisions of the highest NMI court in cases about the U.S. Constitution, treaties, or federal laws, unless those cases can be reviewed in the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands under section 1823. Parts of title 28 that apply to Guam or its district court also apply to the Northern Mariana Islands or its district court, except as article IV says otherwise. The district court created for the Northern Mariana Islands is treated as a "district court" as that term is used in section 3006A of title 18.