Meaamaile v. American Samoa

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Congress may properly delegate plenary authority, including judicial authority, to govern a territory to the Executive. That is exactly what Congress has done in the case of American Samoa.”
• medical malpractice alleged to have occurred in Pago Pago, leading “to a situation in which access to the most important sources of proof can most easily be had in American Samoa”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).