{"id":25327,"date":"2021-12-08T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25327"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:08:03","slug":"ipi-seeks-dismissal-of-kan-pacific-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ipi-seeks-dismissal-of-kan-pacific-lawsuit","title":{"rendered":"IPI seeks dismissal of Kan Pacific lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imperial Pacific International has asked the Federal Court to dismiss Kan Pacific Saipan’s lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.- Imperial Pacific International’s lawyers have requested that the Federal Court dismiss Kan Pacific Saipan’s lawsuit\u00a0<\/strong>against the casino operator. Kan Pacific<\/a>\u00a0is seeking a jury trial and damages, arrears, legal costs and interest for alleged breach of contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPI’s attorney Joey San Nicolas<\/strong>\u00a0said: “The plaintiff’s complaint failed to state a claim against IPI or create a genuine issue of fact upon which relief may be granted.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Nicholas also argued that Kan Pacific Saipan’s claims may be completely or partially prohibited\u00a0<\/strong>by the applicable statute of limitations. He said\u00a0IPI reserves the right to disclose other defences<\/strong>\u00a0and objections based on ongoing investigations and discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case revolves around an alleged breach of the contract signed between KPS and IPI on or about May 9, 2016. According to Mariana’s Variety,\u00a0Joseph Iacopino, the lawyer representing KPS, has said that before signing the agreement, there were several disputes\u00a0and potential reasons for litigation, which made each party likely to face adverse judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said IPI still needs to make annual payments due June 2020 and June 2021<\/strong>, which amount to more than US$400,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July,\u00a0Kan Pacific Saipan Ltd\u2019s complaint against IPI was dismissed<\/a>\u00a0without prejudice by the Court Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan. IPI had asked the court to dismiss the case because Kan Pacific failed to join an indispensable party, the CNMI Department of Public Lands (DPL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPI argued that\u00a0the Department of Public Lands is a third-party beneficiary to the contract in dispute\u00a0<\/strong>and was indispensable to resolving the suit because it had additional facts and evidence needed to fully determine any liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imperial Pacific International has asked the Federal Court to dismiss Kan Pacific Saipan’s lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) has requested the Federal Court dismiss a lawsuit filed by Kan Pacific Saipan (KPS) in the Northern Mariana Islands. KPS is seeking damages, arrears, and legal costs for an alleged breach of a 2016 contract, specifically citing over US$400,000 in unpaid annual payments from 2020 and 2021. IPI's defense includes arguments of failure to state a claim, statute of limitations, and the prior dismissal of a similar suit due to KPS's failure to join the CNMI Department of Public Lands as an indispensable party.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International, Kan Pacific Saipan, Joey San Nicolas, Joseph Iacopino, CNMI Department of Public Lands, Wesley Bogdan","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Exposure?","query":"What are the specific contractual clauses IPI is alleged to have breached, and what is the potential aggregate financial exposure, including damages and legal costs, if the lawsuit proceeds?"},{"label":"Licensing Impact?","query":"How might the outcome of this litigation impact IPI's operational licensing status, regulatory compliance, or future investment prospects in the Northern Mariana Islands' gaming vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[14213,22674],"class_list":["post-25327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25339,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25327\/revisions\/25339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}