Emerenciana Peter-Palican v. Government of the Commonwealth

OPINION

Emerenciana Peter-Palican appeals from the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Governor Eloy S. Inos (collectively, “the Commonwealth”) in Peter-Palican’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action arising from her termination from her position as Special Assistant to the Governor for Women’s Affairs. In an earlier appeal, we vacated the district court’s judgment in favor of Peter-Palican because the Commonwealth Supreme Court’s answer to our certified questions conclusively determined that Peter-Palican did not have a constitutionally…