FOLLOWING the chief judge’s ruling that he must provide additional information in his discrimination lawsuit against GIG Partners Inc., Zaji O. Zajradhara has asked the federal court to dismiss his complaint.
In an email to the District Court for the NMI on Tuesday, Zajradhara said: “You can dismiss this case; they sold/leased out the business already.”
Zajradhara, representing himself, sued GIG, its owner, general controller and assistant bar manager in 2020. He alleged, among other things, that the company, which operated a discotheque in Garapan, violated his civil rights, causing him mental and emotional pain, suffering, and trauma.
Zajradhara, formerly known as Steven Carl Farmer, has filed similar lawsuits against other companies on island.
In September 2019, the CNMI Department of Labor-Administrative Hearing Office granted a motion for sanctions against Zajradhara over a labor complaint he filed against a restaurant for not hiring him as a waiter.
According to the hearing office, “It is an uncontroverted fact that [Zajradhara] has a history of filing many labor complaints. It has also been demonstrated that [he] has initiated a series of unmeritorious claims in various venues against [the restaurant].”
In March 2019, six House members introduced House Resolution 21-5 “to declare Zaji O. Zajradhara, formerly known as Steven Carl Farmer, a persona non-grata in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.”
The non-binding resolution noted “the malicious and ill-mannered actions of Zaji O. Zajradhara…in his filings of numerous labor claims against various businesses in the CNMI….”
