FORMER Superior Court law clerk Robert Edward Mang III has filed a complaint seeking damages, among other things, under the Americans with Disabilities Act against Presiding Judge Roberto Camacho Naraja in his official capacity.
Mang, who filed the complaint on Dec. 29, 2022, was Judge Naraja’s law clerk from October 2020 to October 2021.
Mang’s lawsuit alleges violations of the ADA, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Mang, who represents himself, is asking the court for an order awarding him an unspecified amount of damages and legal costs.
He said he is representing himself “because there is little reason to believe any attorney in the relatively tiny CNMI bar association is willing to sue the Superior Court.”
According to his complaint, there was extensive spying against him. It started as work-from-home monitoring in or about June 2021, “and is still ongoing despite my clerkship concluding in October 2021,” Mang said.
“The CNMI overlooked the need to disclose the lack of expectation of privacy in their personal manual, my contract, or on the laptop itself. They gained access to my Internet in Maryland by duping my elderly parents into joining the scheme. For a variety of reasons, mostly related to their terrible poker faces which gives me some indication of what is going on, I still live with them. As odd coincidences and more overt computer issues started piling up in Summer 2021, I started watching for some sort of notice on my work computer but saw nothing. Both my Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation computer and computer from a short stint at the Small Business Administration display such a warning on startup. Those agencies are both part of the federal government. There is nothing in the Judiciary’s personnel policies or my contract on the subject,” he added.
“Would any employer knowingly not retain the right to monitor work computer usage, especially a legal employer which must safeguard sensitive information?”
He said the Superior Court allegedly has mostly used the spying to contact 22 other judges he interviewed with during and after his clerkship.
“I can only speculate about their motives, but it appears the Superior Court is offended that I overlooked disclosing that I had failed the bar exam to Presiding Judge Naraja and by my desire to cut the clerkship short. It is difficult to even speculate about why they continued for so long or why they would believe that to be a lawful means of redressing their issues with me,” Mang said.
According to his complaint, in February 2015, he fell and hit his head on the Metro’s train tracks in Washington, D.C. sustaining a Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI, more commonly known as brain damage.
“I was in the regular hospital for roughly two weeks afterwards and transferred to inpatient,” he said.
Mang also filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and received a right to file charge on March 28, 2022, but the “EEOC will not pursue further investigation.”
Mang is currently residing in Maryland and is not licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction.
