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48 U.S.C. § 1822 — Jurisdiction of District Court; original jurisdiction; procedural requirements
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**(a)** The District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands shall have the jurisdiction of a District Court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim) and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(b)** The district court shall have original jurisdiction in all causes in the Northern Mariana Islands not described in subsection (a) jurisdiction over which is not vested by the Constitution or laws of the Northern Mariana Islands in a court or courts of the Northern Mariana Islands. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court of the Northern Mariana Islands for the purposes of determining the requirements of indictment by grand jury or trial by jury.
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**(a)** The District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands shall have the jurisdiction of a District Court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim) and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(b)** The district court shall have original jurisdiction in all causes in the Northern Mariana Islands not described in subsection (a) jurisdiction over which is not vested by the Constitution or laws of the Northern Mariana Islands in a court or courts of the Northern Mariana Islands. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court of the Northern Mariana Islands for the purposes of determining the requirements of indictment by grand jury or trial by jury.
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This subchapter shall come into force upon its approval or at the time proclaimed by the President for the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands to become effective, whichever is the later date.
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**(a) District Court of Guam; unified court system**
(1) The judicial authority of Guam shall be vested in a court established by Congress designated as the “District Court of Guam”, and a judicial branch of Guam which branch shall constitute a unified judicial system and include an appellate court designated as the “Supreme Court of Guam”, a trial court designated as the “Superior Court of Guam”, and such other lower local courts as may have been or shall hereafter be established by the laws of Guam.
(2) The Supreme Court of Guam may, by rules of such court, create divisions of the Superior Court of Guam and other local courts of Guam.
(3) The courts of record for Guam shall be the District Court of Guam, the Supreme Court of Guam, the Superior Court of Guam (except the Traffic and Small Claims divisions of the Superior Court of Guam) and any other local courts or divisions of local courts that the Supreme Court of Guam shall designate.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The District Court of Guam shall have the jurisdiction of a district court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim), and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(c) Original jurisdiction** In addition to the jurisdiction described in subsection (b), the District Court of Guam shall have original jurisdiction in all other causes in Guam, jurisdiction over which is not then vested by the legislature in another court or other courts established by it. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court established by the laws of Guam for the purpos
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**(a)** The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and is between—
(1) citizens of different States;
(2) citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state, except that the district courts shall not have original jurisdiction under this subsection of an action between citizens of a State and citizens or subjects of a foreign state who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States and are domiciled in the same State;
(3) citizens of different States and in which citizens or subjects of a foreign state are additional parties; and
(4) a foreign state, defined in [section 1603(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1603/a&num=0&edition=prelim), as plaintiff and citizens of a State or of different States.
**(b)** Except when express provision therefor is otherwise made in a statute of the United States, where the plaintiff who files the case originally in the Federal courts is finally adjudged to be entitled to recover less than the sum or value of $75,000, computed without regard to any setoff or counterclaim to which the defendant may be adjudged to be entitled, and exclusive of interest and costs, the district court may deny costs to the plaintiff and, in addition, may impose costs on the plaintiff.
**(c)** For the purposes of this section and [section 1441 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1441&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) a corporation shall be deemed to be a citizen of every State and foreign state by which it has been incorporated and of the State or foreign state where it has its principa
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1822
from; except that the terms ‘‘Attorney for the
government’’ and ‘‘United States attorney’’, as
used in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall, when applicable to cases arising under the
laws of the Northern Mariana Islands, include
the Attorney General of the Northern Mariana
Islands or such other person or persons as may
be authorized by the laws of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands to act therein.
(Pub. L. 95–157, § 1, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1265;
Pub. L. 98–454, title IX, § 901, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat.
1744.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Covenant, referred to in subsec. (c), is the Cov-
enant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United
States of America, which is contained in section 1 of
Pub. L. 94–241, set out as a note under section 1801 of
this title.
Act of March 24, 1976, referred to in subsec. (c), is
Pub. L. 94–241, Mar. 24, 1976, 90 Stat. 263, which is classi-
fied generally to subchapter I (§ 1801 et seq.) of this
chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the
Code, see Tables.
The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, referred to
in subsec. (c), are set out in the Appendix to Title 18,
Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 1694 of this
title.
AMENDMENTS
1984—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 98–454, § 901(a), sub-
stituted ‘‘for a term of ten years’’ for ‘‘for a term of
eight years’’.
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 98–454, § 901(b), inserted ‘‘or a
recalled senior judge of the District Court of Guam or
of the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands’’
after ‘‘President’’ in first sentence.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98–454, § 901(c), amended subsec.
(c) gener
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