Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California ordered that “the stipulation of parties be and hereby is approved in full and this matter is dismissed with prejudice, except that the court shall retain jurisdiction to enforce the terms of the stipulation.”
Ae Ja Elliot Park, through her counsel David Banes, sued DPS Officers Jarrod Manglona, Anthony Macaranas and former Officer Michael Langdon.
The complaint said Elliot was discriminated because she is Korean and Norbert Duenas Babauta is local like the officers.
A court ruling earlier stated that the officers did not cite nor charge Babauta whose pick-up crashed into Elliot’s vehicle in Feb. 2006.
The CNMI Attorney General’s Office served as counsel for the defendants.
Records showed that the matter came for a settlement conference on Feb. 18, 2010, and both parties executed a court-approved settlement agreement on Feb. 25, 2010.
In Jan. 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s ruled that the defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity.
