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[CITE: 48USC1824]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                  CHAPTER 17--NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--JUDICIAL MATTERS
 
Sec. 1824. Relations between courts of United States and courts 
        of Northern Mariana Islands; applicability of statutory 
        provisions
        
    (a) The relations between the courts established by the Constitution 
or laws of the United States and the courts of the Northern Mariana 
Islands with respect to appeals, certiorari, removal of causes, the 
issuance of writs of habeas corpus, and other matters or proceedings 
shall be governed by the laws of the United States pertaining to the 
relations between the courts of the United States including the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and the courts of the several States in such 
matters and proceedings, except as otherwise provided in article IV of 
the covenant: Provided, That for the first fifteen years following the 
establishment of an appellate court of the Northern Mariana Islands the 
United States court of appeals for the judicial circuit which includes 
the Northern Mariana Islands shall have jurisdiction of appeals from all 
final decisions of the highest court of the Northern Mariana Islands 
from which a decision could be had in all cases involving the 
Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, or any authority 
exercised thereunder, unless those cases are reviewable in the District 
Court for the Northern Mariana Islands pursuant to section 1823 of this 
title.
    (b) Those portions of title 28 which apply to Guam or the District 
Court of Guam shall be applicable to the Northern Mariana Islands or the 
District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, respectively, except as 
otherwise provided in article IV of the covenant. The district court 
established by this subchapter shall be a district court as that term is 
used in section 3006A of title 18.

(Pub. L. 95-157, Sec. 4, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1266; Pub. L. 98-454, 
title IX, Sec. 904, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1745.)

                       References in Text

    The covenant, referred to in text, is the Covenant to Establish a 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the 
United States of America, which is contained in section 1 of Pub. L. 94-
241, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 1694c of this title.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-454 inserted ``including the Supreme 
Court of the United States,'' after ``courts of the United States'' in 
first sentence.


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-454 effective on ninetieth day following 
Oct. 5, 1984, see section 1005 of Pub. L. 98-454, set out as a note 
under section 1424 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    For effective date of this section, see section 1825 of this title 
and Effective Date of Constitution note thereunder.
