Paul Maas Risenhoover, who filed the case on behalf of the National Chamorro Association of the Marianas and the Taiwan-based Robin Hood International Human Rights Legal Defense Fund, said the three-member panel of judges that dismissed his case did not explicitly say it was frivolous.
Risenhoover said the “dismissal in no way implicates the merits of the arguments advanced in the case, and is without prejudice to seeking all available means of relief.”
Risenhoover has also asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to hear the case.
He also filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the NMI, asking for an order to produce all foreign workers that the U.S. Congress claimed to have been abused in the CNMI.
The same motion asked the federal court to make a declaratory judgment on whether the Chamorros and Carolinians are Indians, and whether the indigenous people of the CNMI should be considered U.S. nationals or U.S. citizens.
Glenn Manglona, president of the National Chamorro Association of the Marianas, declined to disclose who is funding Risenhoover’s lawsuit, saying the information is protected by attorney-client privilege.
