Rouse v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that under United Nations trustee system a “trustee is not the sovereign of the Trust Territory”; rather, sovereignty “rests in the people of Micronesia and is held in trust for them by the administrating power” (emphasis added
• explaining that Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Tort Claims Act, various provisions of Federal Income Tax Code, National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedures Act cannot be invoked or are not applicable to inhabitants of Trust Territories under Trust Agreement
• “The representatives of the United States whose conduct is relied upon must have actual authority to bind the government in contract.”
• ‘‘The Trust Territory is not a territory of the United States, either incorporated or unincorporated”
• “The Bill of Rights, of course, is a fundamental safeguard against arbitrary government action and, with respect to citizens of the United States, is applicable to the United States government wherever it acts.”
• “Whether a taking is characterized as ‘temporary’ or ‘permanent’ ... is not conclusive on the issue of when a suit must be brought on a taking claim. Such characterization has bearing on the measure of damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).