Comments on: Case of the Day: Universal Group Development v. Yu https://lettersblogatory.com/2015/09/28/case-of-the-day-universal-group-development-v-yu/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2015/09/28/case-of-the-day-universal-group-development-v-yu/#comment-2327 Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:19:13 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=21424#comment-2327 In reply to Stephen C Woodruff.

Stephen, thanks for the comment. I just meant that the CNMI is an unincorporated territory, i.e., under the sovereignty of the United States but not itself one of the United States.

]]> By: Stephen C Woodruff https://lettersblogatory.com/2015/09/28/case-of-the-day-universal-group-development-v-yu/#comment-2326 Sun, 04 Oct 2015 02:28:22 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=21424#comment-2326 I beg to differ with your assertion that the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is not part of the United States. In fact, the Northern Mariana Islands acceded to the United States in 1975 pursuant to a Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America (“the Covenant”), approved by Congress and given effect as United States law. 48 U.S.C. § 1801. On November 3, 1986, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) formally became part of the United States pursuant to sections 101 and 1003 of the Covenant as “a self-governing commonwealth . . . in political union with and under the sovereignty of the United States of America.” COVENANT § 101; Presidential Proclamation 5564, 51 Fed Reg. 40399. In 2004, the Ninth Circuit held that application of the 14th Amendment to the CNMI meant that all persons born in the islands are entitled to birthright citizenship. Sabangan v. Powell, 375 F.3d 818 (9th Cir. 2004).

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